The woman teased him, and so skilfully that he almost lost control before realising that he could plot her every provocative movement in advance!

Several years earlier, in an Oriental port, he had posed as a naval officer and discovered The Heaven of a Thousand and One Delights. Its inhabitants were exquisite members of the oldest profession... especially trained to use their wiles on foreign officials to compromise them into working for the Red China cause.

This woman was no love-possessed secretary: She was a spy. Well, two could play at that game. For the man was also a spy. In fact he was Nick Carter, the agent known as "Killmaster" in America's secret intelligence organisation AXE. And the yoga-trim body that had mastered every conceivable science of killing could match this harem-trained beauty in her own arts as well.

Nick Carter decided that in this particular assignment, love and duty were going to be mixed...