Quiller has to come up with a plan to a get a British spy, Dougie Cater out of Banana Republic but make it look like he has first been shot by firing squad.

The wife of a diplomat is kidnapped on her brother's farm in South Africa. Quiller is sent out undercover as a journalist and soon realises something is not right.

On the eve of free elections, on the island of St Peter, candidates appear to be dying from voodoo. Quiller and the CIA think Joseph Field is attempting to rig the election.