The amoral Agent Hillier of
MI6 journeys to the city of Yarylyuk aboard the passenger ship
Polyolbion, on a mission to infiltrate a conference of Soviet scientists and return to the
United Kingdom with his childhood friend Roper, who has defected to the
Soviet Union. En route Hillier meets the sexually precocious sixteen-year-old Clara, the voluptuous
femme fatale Miss Devi and the shadowy tycoon Theodorescu. ==References==