London at midnight on New Year's Eve. Artie Cohen realises something is horribly wrong with his long-time girlfriend, Lily Hanes. Two days later, a call takes Artie to Paris. Lily has been found beaten up and raped in an empty apartment. When she regains consciousness, she doesn't know where she is. Worse, she doesn't know Artie.
In a wintry Paris, where drugs are sold like fries at McDonald's and the hookers are trucked in with the vegetables, Artie looks for Lily's attackers and finds himself in a web of sex, death and deceit.
A brilliantly conceived plot moves Artie from Paris through Europe to Vienna and then, finally, back to his native New York on a roller-coaster ride where there is no return ticket.
