Jack Day, an ordinary guy from Idaho, envisages a sexy break in Chicago but finds himself hogging a slab in Cook County Morgue.

Months later, with a soured attitude to life, he visits Canada and becomes enmeshed in a corpse-strewn, life-or-death pursuit that stretches from Toronto, through cities and small towns of his homeland.

With a new identity provided by the FBI, he learns the hard way that even Paradise has a dark and deadly secret.