It's the swinging sixties, and by all rights MI6 spy Joe Wilderness should be enjoying himself, yet he is instead being reprimanded with a posting to remote northern Finland. For some extra cash, he strikes a deal with his old KGB pal Kostya, smuggling vodka across the border into the USSR. But there is something fishy about why Kostya has suddenly turned up in Finland, and in this third outing (after The Unfortunate Englishman), Wilderness is up against a female Red Army general, and about to risk big trouble yet again.