Max Telligan a popular novelist has returned to his London apartment from a business trip to Munich to find his evening newspaper containing a report of his violent death. He subsequently is greeted by a parade of mysterious visitors who seek a pocket sized calculator threaten him with a poison tipped walking stick and display photographs of his wife in flagrante delicto. Max has it seems unwittingly become embroiled in the activities of an international terrorist group!5 women 5 men