For the first time in the history of SADISTO, killer-lover agent 0008 was given an assignment he could not possibly survive. Even the Russians, and the Chinese Red agents shuddered for him. For he had to find an enemy that threatened not only the Free World, but the Iron Curtain enemies as well—an antagonist so lethal that not even SADISTO could locate its leader and destroy it. Yet 0008 strode bravely to the task and allowed himself to be captured by the sinister Captain Demo, a female conqueror who—like her fabled counterpart in fiction, Captain Nemo of the NAUTILUS—literally lived and scourged the world from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. It was certain death for 0008, but true to his code of honor, he would go down loving . . .