Ex-cop and sometime-P.I. Alex McKnight endures the bitter
winter of Michigan's Upper Peninsula in his log cabin with
warm fires and cold Molsons. When Dorothy Parrish, a young
Ojibwa woman asks him for shelter from her violent
boyfriend, McKnight agrees. But after secreting her in one
of his cabins, he finds her gone the next morning.
McKnight suspects vicious, hockey-playing Lonnie Bruckman
of abducting the woman, but his search for her brings on
more suspects, bruising encounters, and a thinkening web
of crime, all obscured by the relentless whiplash of
brutal snowstorms. From the secret world of the Ojibwa
reservation to the Canadian border and deep into the
silent woods, someone is out to kill--and McKnight is
driving right into the line of fire...