Assigned to check parcels at a conference of NATO ministers, Adderly finds that one of them is being blackmailed by a Soviet agent, and also finds time to invent a board game based on his experiences.
Assigned to the domestic support staff at the embassy in Moscow, Adderly tries to find out the real reason why a Russian rocket scientist wants to defect.
Greenspan's new maid turns out to be a fugitive with a secret past, leading Adderly to an employment agency that is a front for an underground railroad system.
Greenspan is happy to be able to visit the land of his ancestors when he and Adderly are sent to Ireland to prevent the kidnapping of a valuable horse owned by an old friend of Clack's.
When Adderly, Mona and Greenspan undertake a seemingly routine assignment as ushers at an international film festival, Adderly ends up faking his own death to keep secrets from being smuggled out of the country.
When a new government committee decides that Greenspan is the mastermind of a ring of foreign spies, Adderly must stop laughing long enough to prove them wrong.
When Adderly and Greenspan are asked to escort the obnoxious sons of diplomats on a camping trip, Adderly becomes suspicious of a visiting Middle Eastern ruler's press agent.
Major Clack is recruited by a former lover for a position in a private security firm, while Adderly tries to keep a visiting diplomat happy - and alive.
While they are sorting files together, Adderly tells Mona a tale of one of his adventures in Morocco, and she fantasizes about being his partner in a scenario similar to the movie Casablanca.
On a simple mission to deliver an item to the airport, Mona spots an ISI agent being forced on board a plane, and in no time she's off to Europe in pursuit of enemy agents.
Adderly is plagued by nightmares of the torture that resulted in''the injury to his hand, fearing that he may have revealed someone else's identity in order to save himself.
On his way to the Toronto Blue Jays' spring training camp in Florida, Adderly stops to investigate the mysterious death of an agent in training, who was the son of an old friend.
When Greenspan arranges a reception for a visiting Soviet ballerina, Adderly discovers that her lover is being held prisoner to force her cooperation. '
Adderly baby-sits an ambassador's alcoholic wife, who claims to be in danger from a vampire, and then becomes suspicious when she appears to have committed suicide. '
Assigned to escort a millionaire former ambassador's precocious son on a plane flight to Adderly's hometown, Adderly suspects he may be the target of kidnappers. '
When Greenspan orders Adderly to impress a nosy TV reporter with the work of Miscellaneous Affairs, he decides to solve a case in the headlines involving the attempted murder of the head of a crime commission. '
Assigned to help his former partner re-adjust to civilian life after being held for the last 3 years in a foreign prison, Adderly observes her meeting with a known enemy agent. '
Given a chance to get back into the field by making a delivery to the coast, Adderly decides to help out a fellow agent who's come up empty in his investigation of a furniture importer whose business seems unusually profitable. '