A strange Mongol rider drags his Chinese captive across a Central Asian plain …

          A Russian attache is hot dead at Dover …

          The American President plans his visit to Moscow …
  
          A Soviet missile base is unaccountably re-aligned on to a new target …

          A series of apparently unconnected incidents on three continents falls into a pattern that will thrust the world into global nuclear conflict.

          Two code-names spell out the answers in the grim puzzle of doomsday – BOYAR … renegade Kremlin warlord and grand master of the scientific theory of holocaust. DRAGON … China’s secrecy-shrouded project hidden out in the Turfan depression, the ultimate death-dealer in the arsenal of armageddon …