Given a chance to get back into the field by making a delivery to the coast, Adderly decides to help out a fellow agent who's come up empty in his investigation of a furniture importer whose business seems unusually profitable.
Assigned to help his former partner re-adjust to civilian life after being held for the last 3 years in a foreign prison, Adderly observes her meeting with a known enemy agent.
When Greenspan orders Adderly to impress a nosy TV reporter with the work of Miscellaneous Affairs, he decides to solve a case in the headlines involving the attempted murder of the head of a crime commission.
Assigned to escort a millionaire former ambassador's precocious son on a plane flight to Adderly's hometown, Adderly suspects he may be the target of kidnappers.
Adderly baby-sits an ambassador's alcoholic wife, who claims to be in danger from a vampire, and then becomes suspicious when she appears to have committed suicide.