A careful, methodical young data analyst for a California
insurance company, John Walker knows when people will
marry, at what age they will most likely have children,
and when they will die. All signs point to a long
successful career?until Max Stillman, a gruff security
consultant, appears without warning at the office. It
seems a colleague with whom Walker once had an affair has
disappeared after paying a very large death benefit to an
impostor. Stillman wants to find and convict her; Walker
is convinced the woman is innocent. Now Walker teams up
with Stillman on an urgent north-by-northeast race?
relentlessly leading to a pay-off that just might shock
the life out of him. . . .