Roger Laski, a middle-aged, Bohemian-born American scientist, works undercover overseas for an obscure U.S. intelligence outfit. He has accepted an assignment in the Far East partly to escape the memories of two failed marriages and the reality of a faltering third one. His mind never stops pondering questions ranging from Japanese social mores to space-time evolution. Quite often, however, he resigns himself to observing and recording the inexplicable. While on a routine mission in Australia, Roger gets accidentally entangled in a top-secret strategic operation that far exceeds his understanding and experience. His attempts first to flee, then to fight, prove pathetically futile but not without tragic undertones and even a tinge of dogged heroism.
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