COLONEL HUGH NORTH,

United States Army, G-2, Criminal Investigation Division, was on his way to the Sulu Sea to find a half-caste Malay named George Lee, onetime espionage agent for Japan.

But somebody else got there first—and murdered Lee. The somebody was a baby-faced American soldier who, after shooting Lee with a lady's pistol, disappeared.

In pursuit of the killer, Colonel North headed for Forth Winfield, an American guided-missile base twenty miles away on the island of Sanga Sanga.

In this steamy hellhole, Colonel North found a company of soldiers seething with hatred for their brutal C.O., a group of jealous Army wives starved for excitement—and MORE MURDER!