In a Manhattan bar, two strangers pick up a soon-to-be-dead look-alike for one of them. After pulling off a flawless one-and-a-half million dollar insurance fraud, the perpetrators decide that one perfect scam deserves another. As Detective Sergeant Thorn Savage and his Manhattan South Homicide squad enter the investigation, they are drawn into the city's seamy underbelly where dangerous fun-and the answers to an ingenious murder case-await those who know where to look.