In August 1942, an Egyptian antiquities dealer buys photographs from a South African traitor and passes them on to Field Marshal Rommel. The photos reveal the highly successful weapons trial of a new anti-tank shell, made from an alloy of promethium, that will critically affect the outcomes of the pending tank battles at El Alamein and Stalingrad. The Abwehr dispatches agent Gretchen Konrad to New Zealand to locate the promethium mine. A Nazi agent already in New Zealand manages to acquire a government document that contains the locations of four secret mines. But which is the promethium...

A suicide bomber from the Palestinian Islamic Front for Jihad and Liberation (PIFJL) tries to blow up Waterloo Tube Station in London. Thanks to the efforts of the Mossad, the Semtex bomb fails to detonate, but it explodes later in a PIFJL safe house. Leaders of the PIFJL need a new place to set up base, and choose a remote Greek island. However, members of the anti-Moslem Greek Spartan League intercept the motor launch carrying the PIFJL explosives and weapons. When the League sees a letter describing the British Government's secret plans to recognize the Turkish occupation of Northern...