This is not the sort of winter break Detective Superintendent Henry Christie had envisaged. What should have been a pleasant hike through beautiful countryside and and overnight stop in a picturesque village, with his old friend FBI agent Karl Donaldson, turns into a fight for survival in the worst snowstorm for thirty years. But things get much worse as they stumble exhausted and injured into the village pub, and find themselves in the middle of a blood-soaked stand-off..