Dan Track, fiercely determined to fight nuclear rape, steps up his assault against the infinite resourcefulness of Johannes Krieger. The cunning Krieger has vanished with ninety-nine death wishes and the secret of where he'll strike next.

Track teams up with ravishing arms smuggler Desiree Goth to pursue throughout Europe the man-who-would-be-Fuhrer. The chase leads to the Soviet science center of Academgorodok, a city in eastern Siberia populated by the best brains in the country.

In the punishing Russian climate, Track faces an American nuclear weapon that cannot be defused, wielded by a fanatic murderer intent on destroying the most valuable city in the Soviet Union... If that goes, the world goes!