Weak with fever, Hank Scott staggered into Silver Gap, the mine town where he was supposed to meet his brother, Dan. But then an unknown killer jumped him in the snow-streaked night. When he came out of the haze of pain and fever, Scott found himself in a comfortable bed and realized that all the people around him believed that he was his brother, Dan, who they thought had been killed in a mine explosion months ago; among them was the man who must be Dan's killer....