Istanbul

If it had been only opium smuggled across the Turkish border, or even the savage murder of !the girl Mija of the notorious Cinema Bleu, it would not have involved Axe, America's super-secret intelligence agency. But the stakes were far higher- nothing less than the total security of nations at the brink of World War III. It was the climactic assignment for our ranking counter-espionage agent, the man with the frightening miniaturized weapons Nick Carter, called by his fellow-agents Killmaster.