Henry McGee, former spy turned terrorist for money, has a plan to extort five million dollars from an airline executive, but first he must eliminate Devereaux. When McGee shoots Devereaux's estranged lover, Rita Macklin, Devereaux comes out of hiding and into McGee's trap.

Devereaux is sent on what seems to be a routine mission to provide safe passage for a Czech defector until a child actor from the same country defects in Chicago and Devereaux and his passenger are attacked and kidnapped.