Johnny Worricker and Margot Tyrrell as they are on the run across Europe, with MI5 hard on their heels. But life in exile is proving much harder than either of them expected. Worricker knows that his only chance of resolving both his personal and his professional lives is if he returns home to confront the powerful prime minister, Alec Beasley. In a duel of wits between the two men, there will be only one winner.

In Bond's last mission before he becomes 007, he must stop a corrupt banker who is planning on winning a poker tournament and using the money to pay back a terrorist group that is after him.