- An international financier has come to the notice of M9, as he is believed to be an extortionist and murderer. When some important people are found dead, Drake goes undercover as a butler at the financier's rented villa in Rome.
- An international financier, Gregori, has come to the notice of M9 as he is believed to be an extortionist and murderer. When some important people are found dead, Drake goes undercover as a butler at the financier's rented villa in Rome. Drake gets on well with Gregori's young wife, who is naive and oblivious to her husband's criminality. However, he finds Gregori an overbearing snob and a bully, willing to beat his wife. When another financier knocks back his proposal, Gregori blackmails him by kidnapping his daughter.—jem
- Drake must swallow his pride as he poses as an obsequious butler at a Roman villa in an effort to expose Benares, a strong-armed extortioner and ruthless merchant of trade secrets. Although Drake charms the new (and young) Mrs. Benares (his suggestion for a dinner menu is "pure poetry"), it is clear that he and Benares himself have a personality clash and will come to blows.
Drake, after disposing of one of Benares's security staff (the nervous Strotti, nicely played by John Cazabon), foils the kidnapping of the daughter of another potential extortion victim, enabling the Italian police to apprehend Benares before he flees.
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