When she learns that her
oldest friend, Vidal Noyes, is missing, Gale Blackburn wastes no
time reviving her commando past to search for him. A recent
conversation with Vidal leads her to conclude that he’s been
kidnapped by conspirators, actually Vidal’s co-workers at NASA,
in an attempt to steal the plans for his most recent invention.
Using a garbage bag of
money which Vidal keeps in a secret closet, Gale hires a
“reformed” drug smuggler to search the islands and ocean around
Florida. She then employs an Everglades Indian and a militia
group to help her search for Vidal on land.
Once Vidal is located,
Gale tackles the problem of identifying all the conspirators and
keeping Vidal, who has faked a loss of memory about the
kidnapping, from being killed to cover up the crime.
Simultaneously, Gale tries to prevent her lover, lawyer Derek
Greene, from learning that being a law-abiding citizen is the
least of her concerns as she struggles to save Vidal.