- During the Cold War, a British secret agent is ordered to kill a Soviet-bloc defector held by the CIA in England but this straightforward mission turns into a convoluted plot involving double-agents.
- Jonas Wilde, a British secret service agent licensed to kill, returns from a successful mission determined to resign. Canning, his London superior, agrees to forward his resignation if Wilde eliminates a Czechoslovakian scientist defector now being held by the Americans. With the help of a housekeeper, Rhoda Gooderich, Wilde kills the scientist but is himself captured and interrogated by CIA agent Lucinda. After Lucinda tells Wilde that someone in his organization is causing fellow British agents to be killed by mistake, Wilde escapes to look for Canning, who mysteriously has disappeared. Accompanied by Canning's wife, Barbara, Wilde heads for the leader's base in the Channel Islands and learns from Stern, a fellow agent, that still another member of their unit, Peter Ravenspur, has been murdered.—alfiehitchie
- Working out of the Isle of Jersey for logistical reasons, Jonas Wilde is an undercover assassin for the British government. His only three contacts in this job are Peter Ravenspur and Brian Stern with who he operates a boating company on Jersey as part of that undercover role, and Tony Canning who acts as their contact at Whitehall. Despite now being in a serious relationship in London with a young woman named Jocelyn, a market researcher, Jonas will often use his inherent being as a ladies man to carry out his work. He has already told Canning that after his next assignment, which came much sooner after the last case than usual, he plans to retire in losing his focus on such work, the retirement despite he only being thirty-seven. That case comes with an unexpected extra body in the form of Ravenspur's "niece" Mari. Although she provides enough information to show that she is being sent by some official source, Jonas doesn't fully trust her. That case is to kill a defector named Balin who is planning to make his way to the US under the Americans' control via Britain, Balin, unknown to the Americans, who is not as he purports to be helping the western cause. In working on the case, Jonas discovers that his life is in more danger than usual, he not expected to survive this mission by someone pulling some official strings. What he doesn't know is that if he miraculously does survive, "she" has been ordered to kill him.—Huggo
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