The lives of an unhappily married retired medical specialist with apparent dentin and a deceptively prim nurse with secrets to hide are forever changed by the events of a stormy winter night in the fictional city of Redfern near Toronto. Add in a drug-dealing fly fisherman, egotistical police officers, a nagging wife, ambitious lawyers, a shady newspaper reporter, a Muslim physician, and a professor of moral philosophy, all of whose lives become intricately intertwined because of those same events, and you still have only part of this fast-paced thriller chok full of lies, deceptions and...