Penelop St Joh-Orsini, NSA's crack double agent, is sent on a secret mission across the Russiona steppes into the desolate waste of Eastern Siberia. Her objective: to track and destroy a Red Chinese scientist who had invented a formidable laser death ray. Masquerading as Mongolians, Penelope and her team of professionals have to face hostile Tartar warriors, and the savagery of th eKinghan mountains before they reach the shores of the mighty River of othe Black Dragon - the threshold to Red China, and the second round in the game of death.