An utterly ruthless international gang of ?skyjackers? kidnap KGB kingpin Palinovsky, based in Dehli, just as he is about to defect to the West and a bidding war ensues between British and American Intelligence who value the information he could provide, and the Russians who want to silence him. A British agent sets up an exchange on the Nepalese border, which results in ambush and massacre, and then disappears.