The High Price of Dying on an ultra-lethal assignment

for openers, it cost Nick $10,000 just to find out that his quarry, once the most powerful communist in Indonesia, was hidden somewhere in the Malay Jungles.

Then there was the added expense of physical energy bedding the nymphomaniacal daughter of Malaysia's top intelligence minister, just to find out that her information was not nearly enough.

Plus the loss of a lot of valuable sleep wondering whether his sultry young jungle guide was interested in him for sex or simply luring him on for the kill.

And the closed Nick came to completing the mission, the surer he was that the ultimate balance would have to be paid with his life.