Janos Kotacek has been imprisoned by the Czech government and will no doubt be tried and hanged for his crimes. But to the super-secret intelligence agency that Tanner occasionally works for, Kotacek is worth more alive. His orders are simple: go to Prague, storm a castle, free a criminal. That, of course, is the easy part. Keeping himself and his captive alive will take all of Tanner's waking hours...