Max Palmer arrived in Malta on business, and was soon entrapped in a dangerous situation by a young, glamorous American widow, who was searching for her long lost brother. Unbeknown to her, he is actually a CIA agent, who went missing, while in Libya. Palmer and the widow charter an old fishing boat in Malta, and sail to Libya, while the head of the CIA advises the president that some Uranium 234 has been stolen from Tehran, and is on route through Libya, to Paris, for the manufacture of a 'dirty' bomb.