Kidnapped...  a top nuclear scientist with knowledge vital to Western security. Tortured...  a harmless merchant whose dying words were as enigmatic as his murder. Massacred...  the screaming patrons of a Tangier nightclub, slaughtered along with the key AXE informer in their midst. To Killmaster, each viscous crime marked another stage in a terrifying global strategy that stretched from the reeking contagion of a San Juan leper colony to the impregnable stronghold of a secret military organization, a group that had forged an extortion plot on an undreamed scale!