In World War II, the leader of Germany, Adolf Hitler, does not die inside his bunker near the end of war in Europe, for he escapes eventually to his other, secret bunker with--to the free world--a terrifying World Scorched Earth Policy (WSEP) ready and in place... What he has thus set for the world is what is to become known everywhere as the 'Astra threat'... For all Hitler and his Astra's direfulness however, Vernon Phillips is the best secret agent of counterespionage branch MI6 of the British Secret Service, and Phillips calls upon his enemies--those who are members of the world's Astra terror network--one by one... But can Phillips kill among them, finally, Hitler, before there can be Hitler's destruction of the world?