EGYPT- where hidden deep in the desert, a top-secret project to build a nuclear plan that will give the Arabs "the bomb" nears completion... ISRAEL- where the Mossad's number-one agent, Nat Dickstein, a master of disguise and deceit, is given the impossible mssion: to beat the Arabs in the nuclear arms race by finding and stealing 200 tons of uranium without any other nation discovering the theft... RUSSIA- where top KGB officials have decided to tip the atomic balance in Egypt's favor... ENGLAND- where Dickstein makes what could be the fatal mistake of his career by falling under the seductive spell of Suza Ashford, the dazzling, dark-haired beauty who may be his dearest ally or deadliest enemy... THE HIGH SEAS- where the Mossad, KGB, Egyptians and Fedayeen terrorists play our the final violent, bloody moves in this devastating game where the price of failure is nuclear holocaust...