When Leroy “Chinese” Gordon breaks into a professor’s lab
at the University of Los Angeles, he’s after some
pharmaceutical cocaine, worth plenty of money. Instead, he
finds the papers the professor has compiled for the CIA,
which include a blueprint for throwing a large city into
chaos. But how is the CIA to be persuaded to pay a
suitable ransom, unless of course someone actually uses
the plan to throw a large city into chaos—Los Angeles, for
instance? Assigned to cope with the crisis and restore the
peace, veteran agent Ben Porterfield steps onto the scene
to remind us that the CIA’s middle name is, after all,
Intelligence. Enlivening the mix are Gordon’s beautiful
girlfriend, Margaret, his temperamental cat, Dr. Henry
Metzger, and Metzger’s friend, an enormous half-wild dog
with huge teeth.