An anonymous blackmailer hinted that

the secret colmected two events: the

birth of a baby boy in a Nazi prison in

1944, and an inmate s suicide in Eng-

land s Hull prison forty years later.

What was the secret?

Spider Scott, the legendary XYY man,

a reformed criminal now working for the

British government, quickly discovers

that the suicide at Hull was murder. Just

as quickly Scott s British contacts desert

him, and he finds that his movements are

being tracked by the CIA and the KGB.

Then Maggie, the woman Scott in-

tends to marry, suddenly vanishes. Spi-

der Scott, his blood boiling, has to fall

back on the skills he had asa master

criminal to save himself, his woman, and

the life of his country.