Arc 9: The Highest Bidder
Written by
John M. Burns (artist), Les Lilley (writer)
Strips: 0600 - 0685
Dates: 03/30/1968 - 07/08/1968
The Seekers are hired by the chairman of a large company specializing in nuclear development projects for the British government. His son, Tristam, one of its key research physicists, disappeared three days ago and security is certain he is heading to a communist country. Jacob Benedict and Susanne Dove head to Paris, his last known location, to look for him and his fiancee, a woman suspected of being a foreign agent.