Chet Carson, an escaped convict, arrives at "Point of No Return", a lonely desert filling station run by a good-natured Swede and his avaricious Italian wife. The Swede has a safe full of money."Open the safe and get me the money or you go back to jail," the wife tells Carson. It is this situation that James Hadley Chase develops with all his story-telling magic - a situation that will keep you on the edge of your chair and the nightlight burning.