In Panama, Steve tries to determine the link between stolen dynamite and a length of string found on a corpse.
The recent murder of a man who was supposed to have died six years ago sends Steve to Greece in search of a cast-iron swastika supposedly containing the location of Hitler's secret bank accounts.
Posing as a journalist in the Balkans, Steve tries to keep a murdered general's secret documents from falling into the hands of enemy agents.
Steve parachutes into an Eastern European country to search for a confession that will exonerate the country's leader of false charges of being a spy for the U.S.