In a playground in Brooklyn, Artie Cohen is led to a dead girl tiedup in duct tape on a children's swing. He soon realizes the killermurdered the wrong girl�the intended victim was his best friend TolyaSverdloff's daughter, who soon meets a similar fate. ArtieCohen�Russan-born New York police detective�is drawn inexorably from NewYork to London and ultimately to Moscow in pursuit of the killer. There,already in over his head, Artie uncovers a painful truth about his pastthat puts Tolya's life in the balance.