'Every forty-eight hours until $10m in diamonds is paid, we'll send back a piece of professor balsam...' That message and a bloody finger are all hank frost finds after he loses his prize charge to terrorist kidnappers. And to get balsam back, the fast-talking, fast-shooting, one-eyed mercenary captain has to gut his way through a sado-masochist torture team, neo-nazi gunmen and a vastly powerful fourth reich conspiracy. The french police are after frost, and so is israeli intelligence and the beautiful mossad agent marita, who claims to be balsam's daughter. From chicago to paris, to the bavarian alps, from terrorist assaults to torture sessions, hank frost is in trouble—up to his eye patch...