Unwillingly, and almost by accident, Boysie Oakes finds himself tackling 'Operation Understrike'. When a routine mission to the United States suddenly goes wild, he is faced with the weighty responsibility of being British Special Security's observer at an important test-firing of TREPHOLITE - a holocaustic missile designed to be launched from the latest thing in sub-aqua craft, USS PLAYBOY. As the action moves at speed from New York to San Diego, Boysie meets a colourful cast of characters including his opponent Vladimir Solev, and the gorgeous Chicory Triplehouse.
Back in the liquidating business. Boysie Oakes finds himself on the sunny shores of Lake Maggiore, where he is to ensure that a Member of Parliament breathes his last, but things go horribly wrong and Boysie is pulled into the biggest espionage foul-up of the century. Precipitated into a flash finishing school run by Doctor Klara Thirel, fair, thrity and sadistic, Boysie finds girlies galore, among them a certian Petronella Whitehing...
Boysie Oakes is back, in an adventure possessing more twists than a clockwork mouse and as tightly sprung as an executive wrist-watch. Involved along the way as Boysie makes a trembling trip over the Berlin Wall to perform an assassination, are Mostyn, his boozy chief, Charlie Griffin, his gunhand, a slick piece of Shantung strip silk known as Rosy Puberty, and an aristocratic lady named Honey Mambo. As usual, when Boysie goes about his task he gets stomach cramps. He also gets caught in the act...