When secret agent Maxim Gunn found out that Wanda Liszt planned to use the talisman of a great emerald necklace, The Great Snake of Sheba, to realize a legendary destiny and make herself Empress of Africa, he figured she needed a straight jacket. That was until he talked to certain men who knew about the secret things of the World. They were worried, so he listened, and the laughable became just maybe terrifyingly possible. Wanda's megalomanic plan would create financial, social and industrial chaos that could plunge Africa back into darkness for the next generation. So, no matter what it took she had to be stopped. And Maxim Gunn is just the man to do it, perhaps the only man. So he takes on one last official mission before resigning from the Organization, the ultra covert arm of British intelligence he still works for . Fast paced action of ambushes, deadly car chases and gunplay keep Gunn at full stretch as he is ambushed by a Mongolian archer, fights a starving jaguar, wrestles a monstrous freak in a castle dungeon, and pits himself against an albino swordsman in his desperate efforts to thwart Wanda Liszt. The explosive climax takes place in the Swiss Alps.