route to the Taj Mahal the plane is hijacked by terrorists posing as passengers and diverted to a military base in China. Gerber is separated from the rest of the passengers and taken to a secret underground laboratory. There he meets Bronson and the team of missing German scientists who are expected to help build an atomic bomb for the Chinese. Carter organizes a revolt by the passengers. They overcome the guards and steal their weapons. Carter and Elena enter the secret laboratory searching for Gerber. They find him and the other missing scientists restrained in a chamber while the military base commandant (Yi) is torturing Julie Baron to force the scientists to cooperate. Carter kills the commandant in unarmed combat and frees the scientists. Elena is caught and tied up. Carter places a time bomb in the missile silo and breaks out with the passengers – several of whom are killed or injured in the attempt. Carter recognizes Bronson as Judas. Judas escapes unharmed as the passengers board their hijacked plane and escape as Carter's bomb explodes destroying the secret base. Main characters Nick Carter (agent N-3, AXE; posing as journalist, Karl Gruber; posing as photographer Philip Carteret) Mr Hawk (Carter's boss, head of AXE) Judas (alias Hugo Bronson/Martin Bormann) Julia Baron (alias AJ Wyatt) Dr Mark Gerber (kidnapped American scientist) Elena Darby (Gerber's secretary, the female spy of the title) Commandant Yi (head of the secret nuclear missile facility in China) Prof Lautenbach (former Nazi, chief scientist at the secret nuclear missile facility in China) References 1964 American novels Nick Carter-Killmaster novels Novels set in the 1960s