Housepainter Tim Wicks packed up his drum kit on Christmas Eve, headed for a dream gig in Canada and vanished without a trace. When detectives located him, they found someone completely different using his identity. And the search for the "real" Tim Wicks would lead to twisted tale of friendship, betrayal, stolen identity, and a headless, handless corpse found in a frozen river.

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