of Rainer von Stahl. After vainly searching the Chapel, Mortimer and Eleni visit a young shepherd, but Olrik and Jack are already on the spot and escape with the manuscript. Mortimer begins pursuing them with two compatriots until they are blocked in the village by a herd of sheep. Mortimer catches Olrik and take the manuscript, but Jack arrives and is about to kill him when Jim comes in and puts him to flight. Mortimer warns Blake of the presence of Olrik in Greece and finds Eleni who tells their next destination: the island of Syrenios. To get there, Jim offers to use the yacht from the owner of his newspaper, Belos Beloukian, who turns out to know all of their adventures. But on board, Mortimer falls on Olrik and is made prisoner, as Eleni, Jim and Dr. Markopoulos. During the night, the Professor manages to escape the ship with a lifeboat, but it is a trap from Olrik, who removed out the oars and the food. Volume II Mortimer drifts for several days at sea until he is saved by a seaplane with on board Blake, John Calloway, Jessie Wingo and a commando of the MI6. They find the yacht of Beloukian in anchorage off the coast of Syrenios island in the sea of Crete. In the evening, they board it, but it's a trap and Rainer von Stahl, watching them from the side, orders the launch of a torpedo that destroys his ship. Taking advantage of this moment of inattention, Jim helps Eleni to escape. For their part, Jessie and Mortimer recover members of the commandos at the scene of the drama. While they are looking for Blake on board a canoe, the aircraft takes off and abandons them just as another torpedo targets it. After having found Blake, Jessie and Mortimer see Rainer von Stahl and his men board a submarine which has just surfaced. The three friends travel along the coast to the village of Syrenios. In view of the means available to Rainer von Stahl, it is clear to Blake and Jessie that he is supported by an organization such as the ODESSA and the former SS members. In Syrenios, Blake, Mortimer and Jessie find housing at the village Café. They then have the happy surprise to see Eleni after she escaped. The next day, the four friends go to the only cave on the