Ex-cop Chance Colter meets with a mysterious and beautiful woman banker in Montreal. She implores him to find her missing brother who has disappeared from Minneapolis. With a deadline of six days before an important bank merger meeting at which the brother is required, Colter begins the search. Unbeknownst to him the woman also hired a competing group to locate her brother believing two groups will yield quicker results. But the other group see Colter as competition and tries repeatedly to eliminate him. It takes all Colter's cop skills to solve the mystery of the missing brother and thwart the attacks against him. The search leads to the far north woods of Minnesota in winter where Colter confronts his attackers and solves the mystery of the missing brother.