Alec Davers plans a "perfect" kidnapping and executes it.. He kidnaps a baby girl and sends her father half of her clothes, half of her baby ring and one set of her finger-prints. The same day he gives her to a German family to keep for him for two years. But the unexepected happens and he is thrown into a Canadian Jail..He comes out he discovers that the underworld has changed, has been modernized, and the powerful deadly gangs are in the saddle. The ruthless rat-like warfare between Davers and the gangs for the ransom money, together with the fact that the whereabouts of the girl are unknown, makes a thrilling story that Mr. Coe tells with conviction and authority.