The Vaillant take in a car race across part of New York. Ironically, the last to be traversed tunnel that performs under the Hudson River, located Talbott and his cronies Muncy and Polk have chosen for their coup throughout the tunnel are explosives. In the moment when all the racers are in the tunnel, Talbott can blow up the input and output. It calls for ten million US dollars, otherwise he threatens the tunnel together with the enclosed therein racers to blow. Michel and Julie have just managed to leave the Holland Tunnel. You know as well as police inspector Murray and Quincy, the clock is ticking. Someone has to stop ... Talbott (information from the German series "Michel Vaillant")