Most blondes are dangerous - but Stella Marni was murder on heels...

Locked inside that beautiful head was the key Sam Durell had to find - the identity of the leader who trafficked in souls between New York and Budapest. Hungarian refugees were vanishing like smoke - and turning up dead behind the Iron Curtain.

The CIA assigned Sam Durell to stop it - and Stella Marni was his only clue. She was one of the most desirable women Durell had ever seen. She had the kind of cool, unearthly beauty a man would lie, betray, kill for - and follow to the brink of hell.

A nation had entrusted Durell with its secrets. He carried a gun to defend them, but against a woman like Stella Marni there was no weapon to keep a man safe.