Featuring Mary Peach, Glynn Edwards, Burt Kwouk, John Bennett, Vernon Dobtcheff, Campbell Singer, Maurice Browning, Peter Burton, Nicholas Donnelly. Written by John Kruse.

Simon helps to avert an assassination attempt on Fenton of British Intelligence in a Berlin nightclub. Russian agents are being killed by gadgets which they are supplied with, but it is judged that the manufacturing is too sophisticated for them to be of Russian origin. It seems a third party is trying to play the KGB off the English. The spy gadgets are booby-trapped. Traveling to Paris, Simon meets Colonel Smolenko, and they become allies in order to investigate the deaths. This provides Simon with the chance to introduce the colonel to some decadent Western ways. The trail leads to a monastery in Switzerland, where the assassins work under cover provided by liqueur-brewing monks.

John Kruse: "It was a lot of fun writing that kind of dialogue, giving Roger the chance to make laconic remarks to her all the time. It gave it all a little more spice and was actually a sure-fire thing that you could repeat again and again with different nationalities. You need that conflict throughout the story. Of course, the pair of them may see eye-to-eye and be shoulder-to-shoulder by the end, but earlier the conflict of those two different personalities is absolutely vital."

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