Hospitalized after a liaison with another man's wife ends in violence, Paul Cole has just one goal, to rebuild his shattered life. But with his memory damaged, the police hounding him, and no way to even get home, Paul's facing steep odds and a bleak fate if he fails.

This final, never before published novel by three time Edgar Award winner Donald E. Westlake is a noir masterpiece, a dark and painful portrait of a man's struggle against merciless forces that threaten to strip him of his very identity.