Jonas Wilde is self-reliant and supremely confident. In his job he has to be, as he is the official assassin of the British security service with 32 successful ‘missions’ to his credit. Returning from the West Indies after one such mission, he decides to quit whilst he is ahead – but will his secretive masters let him?
If he wants to retire from his dangerous life, Wilde has to agree to one last job: the elimination of a defecting Czech scientist currently being held in England by the American CIA. The only problem is that the CIA and British Security are supposed to be on the same side.....aren’t they?