On her job as a CIA courier, Emily Pollifax is swept out and off to Turkey to meet a Turkish woman to hand over a passport and money to come to the United States. Pollifax soon finds herself having her passport taken by the Turkish police and detained until the mysterious woman is turned in. Then she has a body dumped in her lap. Soon she has to avoid the Turkish police, international spies, assassins, and anyone who is threatening the escape of the woman Mrs. Pollifax is supposed to rescue.