A warehouse explosion destroys evidence needed to convict international narcotics king, James Gunnar Ketterbach. His new line of business is smuggling missiles into South America. Burke's mission is to capture one of the missiles and bring it back to be used in evidence at the United Nations inquest. Ketterbach has disposed of a woman for a top Sicilian official and put her in a coffin marked ""Adriana Montavi"". Since then, he has been blackmailing the official into helping him with his operation. Adriana, however, is very much alive and helps Burke defeat Ketterbach.