Love goddess...or modern Medusa? Napoleon Solo was stunned when he first saw the exquisite Countess Anne-Marie Louise de St.-Denis in her private estate on the isle of Corfu. She was the head of the world-famous St.-Denis Laboratory in Paris, where scientific miracles built beauty to order, but Napoleon hadn't expected her to be her own company's best testimonial. Perhaps this assignment would be more pleasant than he had expected. Or perhaps more dangerous - for U.N.C.L.E. suspected that the lovely Countess de St.-Denis was more than she seemed, that she was in fact the brains behind a mysterious, and very deadly, new THRUSH plot...