The newest recruit, a paroled master thief, is sent by the S.I.A. to steal a briefcase with unknown documents from a Middle Eastern courier. The contents, Noah hopes, will help to stop an information leak that is causing their top agents to be killed.
Noah sends Al, undercover as Roger Hampton III, an American millionaire gambler, to the Principality of Montefiore, a buffer state, which is friendly to the U.S. Montefiore has the richest and classiest casino in all of southern Europe, and with a tourist economy like Monaco's, if the casino collapses, the country collapses. The Montefiore currency, though solid, is vulnerable. It is called the Diamond-Franc, because it's based on Europe's last and biggest batch of family jewels, which are on display in the casino. The S.I.A. has uncovered an organized plan by enemy agents to steal the Montefiore Crown Jewels, and if they succeed, Montefiore will rapidly sink behind the Iron Curtain. Noah does not want this to happen. Al asks Noah in disbelief, ""You want me to prevent stealing?"" Noah replies ""It takes a thief, to spot a heist!""
Al is sent to small country to lie low after he has stolen jewels in London. It's part of his cover as he's been sent to retrieve important information on how much information a double agent has given to the Soviets.
Nancy Ross-White, an S.I.A. agent, has infiltrated the Istrian Embassy, in Washington, D.C., posing as the social secretary to the ambassador's wife. The S.I.A.'s objective is a microfilm record of Istrian agents operating against the interests of the United States. An S.I.A. agent was already killed in the embassy, outside the main reception salon, by special police honor guards under the command of Colonel Savrille, while trying to find the microfilm. Noah wants Al to get into the embassy, find the hidden safe, and steal the microfilm: ""a classic heist"", or it's back to San Jobal prison for Al.
Al steals ""The Sorrowing Angel"", a Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece worth $500,000, from the National Gallery. It will be used to bait Francisco Arascan, a South American dictator in exile who has ""one of the world's great private art collections"". The democratic government that ousted Arascan, wants the S.I.A. to find out his plans for taking back his former country. Noah gives Al a genuine 16th century canvas, with a hidden microphone woven into a piece of it. Al has recruited a first class art forger, who can copy a da Vinci so that it will pass any examination, turning the forgery into a ""listening device"", to find out Arascan's plans. Noah wants Al to sell Arascan the genuine da Vinci, and then switch in the fake!
Al is sent to steal a passbook for a Swiss bank account from the dictator of a small Persian Gulf country to prevent him from using the money in the account to buy weapons.
Al is sent in to retrieve the Kavka Sable, a coat that contains a map of all the I.C.B.M. sites in Siberia, which is to be used in a plot by the Soviets to discredit the UK and Baltic States. Al recruits Charlie to help him pull off the job.
The plans for a portable weapon have been stolen and have been reduced to the size of a microdot by Pierre Gropius, a fashion photographer who moonlights as a courier. An agent has already been killed trying to recover the microdot. Noah sends Al to the El Rondo Key Hotel, as Miles Blairsdon, a cattle baron and oil millionaire, as his cover. This is where the fashion shoot is taking place, and where Pierre is Al's target for recovering the microdot, which can be hidden anywhere!
Al poses as a State Department official to find out how Fong Sing, uncle of the Crown Prince, plans to discredit the United States. Meanwhile, Al passes the time gambling with the prince, and teaches him the finer points of losing. Al discovers that Fong Sing has switched the idol that represents the prince's power with a fake, and plans to blame the U.S. for its theft, so Al must switch the fake back for the original, without his knowing.
An agent has been captured and imprisoned and Al must recover a copy of the Miloslav document hidden in his hollow tooth. Al gets to the agent in prison only to find out that he hid the microfilm in Madame Marku's ring. Al must go back to Washington and break into an embassy to get the ring, so he enlists the aid of ""special"" partner, a carrier pigeon, to finish the job.
Al must retrieve NATO defense documents hidden in a safe somewhere in the large villa of Mr. Bjornsen, a V.I.P. who's ""socially and diplomatically"" well connected, and who plans to sell them to the wrong people. The problem is, George, an old ""colleague"" of Al's, wants to steal the ""Bjornsen Necklace"" and he is getting in Al's way, so Al has to do the job and take care of George, all at the same time.
Al must recover a unique lens that connected to a laser beam will cause all sorts of destruction. The only problem, Al's just broken his leg so he convinces Noah to pull the job off with his help.
Al goes into Bulgaria, a Soviet block country, to retrieve a small girl. She is the daughter of Miko Radomir, one of the top three molecular biologists in the world, whose currently across the border in Turkey. The Soviets are holding his daughter and give Radomir 48 hours to return to Bulgaria or he will never see her again. Al has to get the girl out before the deadline.
Al meets Boris in an alley to make a ""swap"", information for money, as part of a plan by the S.I.A. to establish Al's cover as a defector and traitor. Noah pulls up in a car, start's shooting, and yells at Al that ""No agent goes double on me and lives to enjoy it"". Al then flies to an Eastern block country and makes contact with the ""underground"". Al learns from Ilsa, a member of the underground posing as his girlfriend, that his contact, Professor Gorokhov, was killed the night before. The underground does not know what Al has to steal, only where it is, and whatever it is, once revealed, will cause a great upheaval in most of the Iron Curtain governments. Ilsa takes Al to the State Museum and tells him that whatever he has to steal is in there. As to where in the museum it could be, all Ilsa can tell Al is what the professor's last words were as she got to him before he died, he said, ""The keep, the crib in the keep...""
At a royal bash, Samantha Sutton, an American beer heiress, the third wealthiest gal in the world, who's kooky and a ding-a-ling, got a little stoned and shoplifted ""The Royal Orb"" of San Marco. Noah wants Al to place it back in the Royal Tower room before an international incident occurs. In a plot by the Prime Minister to take over the country, Garth had C3, an unstable plastic explosive, placed inside the orb and it is timed to explode and kill the new king during his coronation ceremony. Al figures this out and has to get to the coronation before the bomb goes off!
Noah wants Al to borrow the unpublished memoirs of The Duchess of Lambrose, so they can be microfilmed, and then returned, without her knowing. The Duchess was one of the most sought after women of her time, and her memoirs deal with the most important men in Europe and America of the past forty years; kings, prime ministers, generals and dictators. The memoirs could prove embarrassing to the west, as some of her admirers were important American diplomats. Noah wants the microfilm in order to read the memoirs before they are published, and find out just what the diplomats whispered into her ear. The S.I.A. wants to make sure that there are no incriminating secrets in the memoirs that may jeopardize the security of the western world. The memoirs are to be published after the duchess' death, but Noah suspects that the enemies of the U.S., who want them published now, will try to accelerate the publishing date, by ""knocking her off!""
The son of a dictator is dead, poisoning is suspected and Al is sent to steal the body, so the S.I.A. can be ready for any political situation that may arise from the truth.
Al must travel to Italy, with an egotistical opera singer supplying his cover. The mission is to break into a theft-proof type safe that contains documents that may prove that a millionaire industrialist is a Nazi war criminal.
Al goes undercover as a magician to retrieve incriminating proof that is being used the dictator of a small country to bribe a member of Congress to keep aid coming. His cover is blown immediately and he must make a deal to protect it.
Al must retrieve a new jet fuel called ""Palium"", a compound that can take any shape. Its inventor has been killed and no one knows what form the fuel has taken. The Palium is on a heavily guarded estate owned by Nick Grobbo, who plans to fence it. The only way onto the estate is by invitation, so Al steals the ""Hobarth Diamond"" in order to get invited in.
An international cartel is planning to finance Kristoff, a communist guerilla, to power in Santo Thomas, a Caribbean country, in exchange for mining rights. A document that the investors have signed is locked in a safe protected with six electronic keys. Noah wants to stop the revolution because the dictator is old and his second in command offers democratic reform. Noah needs Al's special talents to get that document, so Al flies to Santo Thomas, posing as Cormack Shannon, a mixologist, who was invited by Phillips to entertain at the cartels meeting. Al has to steal the document by finding all six keys, which were given to, and hidden by, each cartel member, and get into the safe before the Swiss courier arrives in the morning.
Al breaks into the safe of a rich man's home but it turns out it was only a test, the man wants Al in on a ""package"" worth $10,000,000, to steal fifty atomic fuel capsules. If Al doesn't pull off the job, the man will expose Al's arrangement with the S.I.A., and once exposed, they'll have no more use for him, and then they'll send Al back to prison.
Hans Schiller, the most important direct intelligence link to East Berlin, is arrested on the U.S. side of the East-West Berlin border crossing. He was set up by Heinrich, who suspects he is a double agent, called ""Centaur"", and he is right. Schiller has documents in his safe that can expose the entire Eastern European espionage network. Noah doesn't want Schiller exposed as a double agent, so he wants Al to retrieve the documents from Schiller's safe. As his cover, Al marries General Levin's daughter, Corey, and is smuggled into East Germany as a downed Air Force pilot. Al gets captured by Heinrich, has to break out of East Germany's security headquarters, get to Schiller's safe and get back into security headquarters, without them knowing, and Noah is undercover to negotiate Al's release.
Noah gets Al out of bed at 1:30 in the morning to watch ""The Red Turnips"", an avant-garde film made by Lester V. Griffin. Al wants to know why, and Noah tells him that all of his questions will be answered, except for one, maybe, ""How do we prevent Al Mundy from being killed within the next 48 hours?"". Griffin unknowingly filmed 11 S.I.A. agents making the most important drop in Sector 3, behind the Iron Curtain. One agent was killed already because of the film. Al has to go to the LaPalma Film Festival, where the film is being shown, and with only 48 hours to go before the film's official screening, steal the only existing print of The Red Turnips before any more S.I.A. agents are killed, and before any enemies of the U.S. can get their hands on it. Noah tells Al not to worry about the job, because he's sending along the best man the S.I.A. has. Al asks, ""Who?"" and Noah answers, ""Me!""
Al flies to Rome to recover a top secret mutual defense treaty with Latavia, which was stolen. Noah wants Al to steal it back when the treaty passes through an intermediary, Nick Grobbo, a fence Al handled before by fouling up his Palium deal. Nick is handling this deal to square things with the Russian's, who almost killed him over that deal. The treaty, disguised as technical documents, will be passed at a convention of doctors all carrying similar documents. Al decides to steal the Kimberly Diamond, 70 carats and worth $1,000,000, as his cover as to why he is in Rome, and as a way to get to Nick, who this time, does not trust Al, but can't resist a chance at the diamond. To confuse Nick, Al sends 15 fake doctors with 15 fake treaties to Nick's room during the hour that the real treaty is to be delivered. Nick figures this out and decides to deliver all 15 treaties to the buyer and let him determine the ""real"" one. Unfortunately for Nick, Al makes sure that the real treaty never make
A cartel is putting together the finances that will enable it to buy the International Munitions Corp. With it, they will be able to decide the fate of any large or small disputes that call for weapons. To prevent this, Al must break into the United Community Bank and steal the stock proxies from their safety deposit box. The problem is that the vault door is exposed to the public via large glass windows, and Al has to do the job in broad daylight!
A Chinese backed general that is trying to seize power in a small African country steals the Endaka scrolls. Al has less than 24 hours to break into a museum, and the heavily guarded compound of the general, and steal back the scrolls. Al must replace the scrolls before their President discovers that they are missing, because the shock would kill him and that would allow the general to take over.
Al takes a trip down to Rio for a short vacation with a Contessa. He winds up instead involved in determining the fate of a beautiful and recently defected Soviet citizen.
Al's arrested in Lucerne, and is accused of four major thefts in four major cities, while he was in each city. While in custody, Inspector Berman describes the thefts with details, that Al realizes, only someone who has physically pulled off the jobs himself, could only know. So Al ""confesses"" to the crimes and makes a deal to return the gems. Now, Berman sees that Al knows that ""he"" did it, so he takes Al to ""recover"" the gems, planning to kill Al and retire after solving his last case, keeping all the gems he stole for himself.
Al is given three days to take a picture that will prove that a reclusive billionaire is still alive. Since no one really knows what he looks like, Al must take a picture of a part of his body that has an identifiable scar. To get to the billionaire he must get rekindle a relationship with an old flame.
Al flies to London to find Muenster Von Wolfgang, the richest man in the world, who is involved in some ""technical missile breakthrough"" and is in negotiations with countries not friendly with the U.S.. Noah sends Al in undercover as a film distributor to the movie studio Von Wolfgang owns, to meet his actress girlfriend Dodie, in order to get to him, through her, and find out what the breakthrough is. However, her younger brother Herbie is a genius, and is giving the formula for a new solid state missile fuel to Von Wolfgang, so he will make his sister, who can't act, a movie star.
Al flies to London to find Muenster Von Wolfgang, the richest man in the world, who is involved in some ""technical missile breakthrough"" and is in negotiations with countries not friendly with the U.S.. Noah sends Al in undercover as a film distributor to the movie studio Von Wolfgang owns, to meet his actress girlfriend Dodie, in order to get to him, through her, and find out what the breakthrough is. However, her younger brother Herbie is a genius, and is giving the formula for a new solid-state missile fuel to Von Wolfgang, so he will make his sister, who can't act, a movie star.
An injured Al must get Pepe Rouchet, the ""second best"" thief in the world, to substitute for him on an assignment. The job is to retrieve the ""Crown Jewels of La Monica"", whose economy depends on them, from Fortress Hill, a heavily guarded estate, and whose main safe is in the middle of a tiger cage. Al's plan is to ""feed"" Pepe the information he'll need to pull off the heist, but Pepe figures out that he is being set up by Al and Noah, and decides to pull the job before Al feeds him all the information. Knowing that Pepe did not find out about the tiger cage, Al has to break into Fortress Hill himself, and get to Pepe before the tiger does!
Al is brought in fast to recover an important microdot that was inadvertently stolen by a small time thief. A party is thrown to try to flush this thief out. Meanwhile, a government courier with an armed briefcase full of Polaris missile plans, stops by the party to get Al to pop it open and defeat the fail-safe mechanism.
In London, Noah has Al break into the U.S. Embassy and MI5, using the M.O. of ""The Electrician"", a thief who has been stealing secrets for 6 years for an unknown organization. Noah wants to discredit him with his superiors, to flush them out into the open. However, the organization figures this out, and when Al breaks into MI5, he finds ""The Electrician"" in the safe, dead. Noah tells Al that an assassin, Goldman, was sent by the organization and was given a two-part contract: get rid of ""The Electrician"", and get rid of the S.I.A. man who set him up, Alexander Mundy!
Al flies to Costa de Oro, to pose as the fiancé of an international jet setter who has has information on the Baranoff Timetable, a detailed plan of the communist takeover of all of South America. Al steals the timetable and discovers it is a forgery, so Ortega, who planned to use it to overthrow the current president, locks up Al and the president's daughter, to force the president to make a speech turning power over to him.
Al is having difficulty breaking into an old fashioned safe that contains a little black book that contains information that can help to break the syndicate. Al knows of an old safe cracker who can get the job done so he goes to San Francisco to bring him back.
Al penetrates the house of John B. Cannon, a reclusive billionaire, who hasn't been seen in years. Al must prove to the old man that a member of his family is diverting one of their company's oil production to the Soviet Union.
Before competing in the Miss United Nations Beauty Pageant, in N.Y., a group of international beauties are touring the U.S. as guests of the State Department. After they had been on a private guided tour of the Pentagon, a routine check of top-secret information revealed that a microdot pertaining to H.A.W.K., the anti-I.C.B.M. missile systems, was missing. Noah sent an agent to N.Y. to check out the girls, but the agent was stabbed outside the contestant's hotel, and the last thing he said before he died was ""38-23-36"". Noah suspect's one of the contestants of being a free-lance agent, who took advantage of the opportunity, stole the microdot, and is negotiating to sell it to the highest bidder. Noah sends Al to the pageant undercover, replacing Eric Zerko, Target Magazine's top reporter and fashion photographer. When the pageant ends in 48 hours, all the girls will be free to leave the country, so Noah tells Al that's all the time he has to figure out what ""38-23-36"" means, and to re
Al is sent to recover a black box that contains nuclear detonation codes. He must match wits with a chess player who has intentions on the disposition off the box.
After receiving the message ""Dangerous Weapon Inside: Code 409"" from two S.I.A. agents in the Far East, who may be have been killed, Noah sends Al and Dr. Hopkins to Japan to retrieve the prototype for a portable, hand-held laser gun, which the S.I.A. must have, at any cost!
Al steals a computer memory core, the key to the entire military coding complex, from the Russian consulate. The Russians want it back. Lita, a Soviet assassin, slips a complex protein poison into Al's drink which gives Al less than 40 hours to live. Al finds Dover to make a deal to give back the memory core for the antidote, but Washington refuses, so Al does whatever he has to do to live, even if it means stealing the memory core back from the S.I.A. and giving it back to the Russians himself.
In Porto Ercolle, Al is mugged, drugged and almost drowned when he makes contact with some buyers of plutonium and they mistake him for an operator named George. It turns out they are all looking to meet with George. George, an unknown thief, is responsible for a dozen unsolved major thefts in the last five years and is really Janet Martin. She is selling 5 grams of stolen plutonium, and is holding out for the highest bidder. Wally wants Al to find out where the plutonium is, get it back, and if possible, get George, but the plutonium comes first!
Al is sent to the island of Capri to meet with a defecting general who plans to divulge information on Soviet anti-missile deployment projections. In order to keep the general's new identity secret, all regular S.I.A. personnel are being kept away from him and he'll pass on the second half of the information to the one man in the S.I.A. who is uniquely capable of mingling with the beautiful people, Alexander Mundy.
Wally wants Al to hit the Banco de Casino, where Eric the Red, the biggest all-night banker in the world, is passing counterfeit money. The S.I.A. wants to find the source of this money by forcing Redman to speed up his timetable for distribution. To even have a chance of pulling off the job, Al needs help from the greatest thief who ever lived, his father.
While trying to enjoy a fishing trip, Al meets up with Laurie, an old friend, who gets him mixed up with her trying to get safely to Rome. The S.I.A. is after her as they suspect she is delivering information to an agent who works for the other side, a man who set her up, a man she fell in love with, because he was the only man to ever give her flowers.
Al must go to Budapest to rescue Dover, who's been kidnapped and drugged and is being forced to divulge S.I.A. secrets. After discussions at the ""highest"" level, the S.I.A. either sends Alexander Mundy to get Dover out safely, or they send someone else, to silence him permanently!
Al is sent to Rome to watch over the Three Virgins of Rome, three paintings by Raphael worth 15 million dollars that have been reunited and are being publicly displayed together for the first time in over a century. After the showing, the paintings are being formally turned over to the United States by Oliver Kent. The S.I.A. suspects that most of the money Kent collects to benefit various charities, ends up in his own Swiss bank account, so Al has to find out if Kent is planning anything devious. Coincidentally, Alister is also in Rome and he, ""Le Panther"", is temporarily stepping out of retirement to steal the Three Virgins of Rome, because one of the paintings on display was actually stolen from Alister, by Kent, and Alister wants it back. The heist is on until Alister learns from the Inspector that Al is in Rome to protect the paintings, so Alister calls off the job. However, Al finds out that Kent plans to steal the paintings, and frame Alister for the theft, so he knows that the
Al is in Milan, where the wanted wife of the murdered Prince of Kong Har is hiding out. The S.I.A. wants to get her to neutral Switzerland, before the real killer, a power hungry general who hates the U.S., finds her, extradites her back to Kong Har, and puts her on trial for murder, using the trial for communistic propaganda against the U.S.
Al is suffering from a concussion and memory loss and was the last person to see a senatorial candidate's daughter alive. The candidate's campaign will use information they have on Al to blame the S.I.A. for her disappearance. Al makes a deal with ""The King of Thieves"", who sends all his men to search Rome for the girl and in return for this favor, Al steals the priceless ""Sword of San Angelo"" for him.
In Rome, Guido, an old friend of Al's, stole the ""Sorician File"", which contains the name and thumbprint of every major member of the Sorician ""Brotherhood"". He is in trouble with them now and hopes that Al will help get him out of it. To avoid being killed by Vale, Guido confesses to him that he knows who ""really"" stole the file, and says it was ""Mundy, Alexander Mundy!""
The Soviets want Alister and Alexander dead, as revenge for what they did to their counterfeiting operation, 18 months ago. To prove his loyalty, Redman is told to do the job. Al and his father go underground and wait for the next hit and when they are reported dead, the Soviets begin their scheme to invest a billion dollars in gold in the U.S. stock market, through Redman.
Mr. Miles of British Intelligence, requests Al's help to find a microdot, containing a secret political agreement between China and the United Arab Republic, which was hidden by a murdered spy in the Volrs Museum, in East Berlin. Al is given help from Mollie Taylor, an elderly art lover and British spy, who knows the art museum inside and out. Al steals the microdot and gets out of East Berlin, but Mollie is captured during the escape by Herr Hoffman and is held in prison. Mr. Miles and Wally, who won't help, consider Molly expendable but nothing will stop Al from getting her out. Al calls Mollie's friend, Mr. Blanton, to help him with a plan that will take a lot of nerve. Al is "arrested" and taken to the prison, and then he and Mollie are "transferred" out of the prison by Mr. Blanton, pretending to be a higher authority. The only problem left is how to get across the border, and Al tells Mollie they're going to use the oldest trick of them all, they'll bribe the guard!
Al comes home with a date, Ellen Peters, only to find that Technikov, a top Russian agent and the head of the Russian S.I.A have infiltrated his apartment. He wants Al to steal a man, Mr. Jack, the head of the S.I.A.. Technikov gets Mr. Jack to call Al asking about a fake document, a Berlin attack plan, information that Al supposedly held out from a vault he opened in the U.S.S.R.'s East German embassy on his last S.I.A. assignment. This is part of Technikov's plan to lure Mr. Jack to Al's apartment in order to kidnap him and smuggle him back to Russia in a steamer trunk. Technikov forces Al to tell Mr. Jack that he'll turn over the ""information"" to him if he brings $500,000 in cash to his apartment, and Al tells Mr. Jack he must come alone. When Mr. Jack calls to tell Al that he has the money ready, Al tells him, ""Don't forget, I was trained by Richie Harris, I know every twist and double-cross that ever was invented!"" Technikov realizes that Al was trying to tell Mr. Jack something,
Al is sent undercover impersonating Adrian Mason, an astrologer, in order to infiltrate ""Casa Tarot"", where he has to retrieve a micro-module containing top-secret information that is now in the possession of a group known as the ""Order of the Golden Key"". They are celebrating ""winter solstice"" at Casa Tarot and have sealed it off from the rest of the world for 24 hours.
In Paris, a girl as a favor to her roommate Yvonne, Al's contact, meets Al at the airport. He poses as the girl's fiancée, a stockbroker. When they go to meet Yvonne, she's already dead. Al has to find a codebook, the method of transmission and Yvonne's killer. The S.I.A. suspects the codes are being transmitted during fashion shows at Maison Trion.
Wally gets one of the greatest drivers in the world, P.K. Rhodes, to train Al to go undercover as Paul Stratford, a Formula One race car driver, so he can get invited by Paolo Monteggo, the vice president of the Republic of Cordona, to Cordona's First Annual Grand Prix Race. The S.I.A. suspects Monteggo and the Soviets of building missile silos in Cordona, but Cordona's official government position is that they are building an extensive grain storage complex. The S.I.A. needs proof of their theory, so Al must find and steal Monteggo's final phase blueprint and show it to Cordona's pro-American president, in order to to prevent Monteggo from seizing power as soon as that complex is finished.
A doctor tells Al that an old friend of his, Bessie Grindle, is destitute, in a charity ward, and has lost the will to live. He tells Al that she should get back to working at whatever she used to do, so Al tells him that Bessie Grindle ""was the greatest female jewel thief that ever lived"". In order to get Bessie back on her feet, and knowing that she won't take charity, Al finds Bessie and tells her that he's there on business. Al tells her that he need's her, that he's got a caper going, a big one, but he can't pull it off alone, he needs her ""magic touch"".
Al and Mona are driving on a road from Las Vegas to L.A., when she sees a jackrabbit on the road. She grabs the steering wheel, and causes the car to crash in old western town called Fortune City. During the crash, Al gets a cut on his head, and while trying to fix the car, passes out. Meanwhile, Mona explores the town, goes into the saloon, opens the wrong door, and disappears. Al regains consciousness in the morning and is greeted by Harvey Galishaw. Al asks him if he's seen a girl, Mona, but Harvey denies it. He tries to convince Al that there never was a Mona, that the bump on his head from the crash caused him to imagine her. Al finds proof in the saloon that Mona was really there, and realizes that Harvey is trying to get rid of him, so after Harvey fixes the car, Al drives off, only to double-back that night to try to rescue Mona. Al finds Mona but they both get caught trying to escape and are tied up. After getting loose, Al overhears Harvey's plans. There is an underground ato
Major Arlin McCoy, Chief of Security at a secret government installation is prescribed medication, steroids, that has a side effect of paranoia, and is told to leave the base by the doctor. General Wiley receives orders that there will be a complete test of the President's Unified Nuclear Control Station, under simulated war conditions. Before he can leave, the Major is told something ""big"" is going to happen, and is asked to stay on the base. In the meantime, Major McCoy has been overdosing on the medication and thinks the situation is real. He decides to take control by force, and locks himself in the President's war room. He hits the button to override the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and is now running the show from the President's chair. Now, the only way to recall the B-52 bombers is from that room. While this is going on, members of the S.I.A., including Devon, were on a tour of the facility. Devon suggests that they blow the door to get the Major out. The General tells Devon that the
Mr. Jack assigned Al to keep an eye on a rock group that just toured the country of Rugeria. After the group left Rugeria, Marilyn Lee, the group's lead singer, and a close friend of Al's, was supposedly killed in a plane crash, her body burned up without a trace. Al was one of the last people to see her alive. Later, she turns up very much alive at Al's apartment, where she tells Al that when she died, she couldn't find a place to live! She tells Al that the Rugerian Secret Service blackmailed her into adding three chords into her last recording. In the meantime, Mr. Jack discovers that there is a plot to assassinate the Rugerian president, who just announced a 25 year co-existence pact with the U.S., upon his arrival in the U.S. Back at his apartment, Al figures out that the three chords added to the song are actually a sonic trigger that when played will shatter, and detonate, a bomb that is made out of a glass sculpture. Al has to get to the hotel were the president is staying and
A bookseller with a diary of a WW II Nazi general is murdered. The diary describes where to find a list of a dozen Nazi war criminals that remained anonymous. That list is on the back of a Matisse painting of Suzie Simone. Wally wants Al to steal this painting before Kraus does but it is in Suzie's cafe basement protected by the Wexler alarm system, the best there is, and outside of his father, Al doesn't know anybody who ever beat it.
After sitting through three performances of the Bogino Brothers Traveling Circus, Alister tells Al that he, Al, and Funello are taking over the show and that they are all going into the traveling circus business, Alister bought them out. King Armand of Mordera, one of Alister's oldest and dearest friends, asked him to come to his country incognito, which is why they need a good cover. The King, who's in danger of being killed by General Contell, wants Alister and Al to save his eleven-year-old daughter's life. Al just has one question, what are they going after that requires so much preparation? Alister tells him ""it is something quite challenging, quite challenging. We're going to steal a Princess!""
Devon busts into Al's apartment, there's a fight, and while holding Al at gunpoint, Devon says to him, ""You traitor, you dirty traitor."" Devon takes Al to headquarters where Mr. Jack charges him with treason. The evidence: a Swiss bank account with $253,000 in Al's name, notes, audio and film of Al meeting Nilo Cranodj, who is brought in and points out Al as his S.I.A. contact. Al becomes a wanted man as he escapes to find out who set him up, and to discredit the evidence against him. Al finds Stanley, and gets him to admit that he did the job of framing Al for $20,000, and was paid by members of the Karenian embassy. Al breaks into the embassy and finds evidence-implicating Devon, but he is shot as he escapes. Al makes his way to an old friend of his and his father's, Mike, who gets Al a doctor for his gunshot wound. Later on, Mr. Jack tracks down Al and tells Al that his only chance to get out of this is to help trap the real double agent, as the real spy wants Al dead because Al kno
Al must protect Professor Moses, a nuclear scientist, and his documents, during a special flight with only eight passengers, to Melbourne, where an important conference will be held with five of the world's top scientists. However, when the in-flight film starts, ""The Man"" in the film, puts all five scientists on trial for murder, for their country's crimes against the Earth, finds them guilty, and sentences them all to die. As the film describes the crimes of each scientist, each scientist dies every hour, on the hour, one by one. Al finally figures out that everyone on the flight has been poisoned with time capsules, and that the deaths are being triggered by sound waves from a control device that is somewhere on the plane. The problem is that Al has only five minutes left to find this device and disarm it, before it triggers the poison in his system!
