Competition for the contract to build a new European highway takes an ominous tone when a girl's life is placed in danger. The contract - or death. This is the grim situation for The Adventurer to tackle.
A young and beautiful oil heiress who wants to sell her controlling interest to the Communists learns the hard way how to live with her multi-millions, thanks to a little help from the Adventurer.
A contract is out for The Adventurer - a big reward for whoever kills him. Someone, clearly, doesn't like him, but who is the unseen figure in the background?
Gene discovers that he is being impersonated when an ingenious, big-scale confidence trick is being planned. But there are difficulties when he impersonates the impersonator.
When he receives a cable from his friend Don Fleming, saying that he has met Magda, the girl whom Bradley loved, but who walked out on him suddenly, the Adventurer flies to Beirut to learn the truth about her departure.