Benny Cooperman is slowly going crazy. It's February in Grantham, Ontario, Canada, and he has nothing better to do than watch the frost creeping in under his door. And think about his family and friends enjoying the warmer life in Florida. Nothing that is, until blue-eyed, long-legged Muriel Falkirk enters his private investigator's office because her boyfriend, the notorious Johnny Rosa, has gone missing. It's been several years since Johnny pulled off a sensational kidnapping. He had served his time in Kingston Pen and been released. But now he's vanished. Skipped parole? Murdered? Or what? Muriel wants to know where he is. A lot of other people do too, most of them interested in the un-recovered half-million-dollar ransom. Benny takes Muriel's case and joins "The Ransom Game" too. In this witty and intriguing thriller, he discovers that nobody plays by the rules.