When an attaché case is dropped in Madame Karitska's lap by a man fleeing a crowded subway, she knows it is time to consult her good friend Detective-Lieutenant Pruden, and together they find themselves involved in bizarre cases of violence and murder.

At the request of her old CIA contact, Carstairs, Emily Pollifax leaves New Jersey and her geraniums for Africa, where she battles dark forces of evil to save an African leader from assassination