"I can't kill you. If I do, Mac will send out the executioners, the termination squads ..."

When the big man in Washington assigned Matt Helm to ride shotgun on a top-secret mission in Norway, Helm wanted to know why. But this was a need-to-know deal, at least until his partner--a woman posing as his mistress--was killed. Now Helm is mad--mad enough to blow the operation sky high.