A half-savage white wolf with a deadly nuclear secret buried beneath its pelt had to be tracked down in the treacherous Yugoslav mountains.

The wolf's dead master. AXE's agent in Yugoslavia, had hidden his last and most urgent message under the fur of his deadly pet. The agent's beautiful, fierce widow had discovered the wolf's terrifying secret just one day to late to help NIck Varter. A brutal guerrilla leader, fighting a little-known barbaric war of freedom behind the Iron Curtain, was playing East against West in a lethal gamble. And an unknown and very dangerous traitor seemed to know every step Nick would take, every move Nick could make - just before he made them.