A body is found in Fairbanks, Alaska. A name and phone number are scrawled on its frozen hand. 3,000 miles to the south, an aging Atlanta lawyer receives a strange request from a past he'd rather forget. This sets in motion a search for three children abandoned a quarter of a century earlier. Part whodunnit, part family drama, part nostalgic look at early rock 'n roll, this gripping novel, with its cast of villains and losers, should speak to anyone who has ever felt like an unmitigated failure.