Bolan was up against a master adversary - Paradine. The terrorist tsar, presumed dead after an earlier encounter with The Executioner, has returned with a vengeance.

Paradine has hijacked a plane filled with an international array of diplomats. And he has demanded that a ransom of one billion dollars worth of precious gems be delivered by one man, and one man alone... Mack Bolan.

Mack mobilizes his new ally, the Laser Wagon, to roar into the core of the vermin's breeding ground. Mack is determined to slay the monstrous parasite, to release humanity from the cold clutch of a madman.