ALAN STEWART has a past he is trying to forget. That past included strange journeys abroad, passports in many names, dangerous encounters and sudden death in a northern forest. Believing all this is over, he receives a visitor from his past and finds himself again on a mission into the unknown.
Why should Graham, a British agent, attempt to kill Alan and his girlfriend Elin?
Ambushed by his old enemy, Russian master-spy Kennikin, Alan is captured.