Fri, May 31, 1968
Bigoted plantation owner Marcus Spencer bullies and abuses his African work force,refusing to pay them an agreed sum. Their ally is Father Ignatius Loyola,a Jesuit priest and Spencer gets McGill to investigate him. In fact he is an ex-mercenary called Porter,believed to be dead but,after locating and speaking to Porter's father,McGill sees that he is genuinely repentant and anxious to help the oppressed Africans. For this reason,it only seems right to defy the vile Spencer and his wife and go over to the side of the angels.
Fri, May 17, 1968
A car passes McGill and its driver,shouting out to him,addresses him as Mariocki and tells him he will be killed. McGill assumes it is a case of mistaken identity but more death threats follow -each referring to him as Mariocki and informing him that he will be murdered at twelve midnight. He needs that time to work out exactly who his would-be assassins are and how to elude them.
Fri, May 24, 1968
Henry Faversham's a South American diplomat, who boards a plane to return to England. When colonel Garcia, the police chief, tries to arrest him for stealing a large cache of government money, Faversham threatens to blow up the plane, and Garcia lets him go. Once back in London, Faversham hires McGill to help himl prove his innocence. Unfortunately, Garcia has other plans, and McGill races to stop him, and save Faversham.
Fri, May 10, 1968
American McGill, a former intelligence officer back in the States, was forced to resign when he was made the scapegoat in the wake of a scientist's defection to Russia. Now he operates as a private eye in England. Duped into believing he is going to meet a client, he is knocked unconscious and awakes to find himself a prisoner of Colonel Davies and his men. Davies was head of Ikwala, an African country which was subject to a coup and Davies replaced by local man Dr. Gwabe. Davies wants McGill to sign a confession admitting his part, on behalf of the American government, in the coup, and is prepared to torture and brain-wash him into making that confession.
Wed, Jan 31, 1968
British agent Ruth Klinger apparently defects to the East Germans,who set her a loyalty test involving her old flame McGill,in Germany to track down the missing Johann Liedkind. Johann is in fact part of a neo-Nazi revivalist group,the discovery of which places McGill in a dangerous situation. But at the same time he is faced with a dilemma. How can he escape and save Ruth with him without blowing her cover?
Wed, Oct 4, 1967
Rufus Blake,junior and most ineffectual member of a gangland brotherhood,is prepared to give evidence against his brothers at their trial,hoping he will be able to get his hands on their hidden loot. He has refused police protection and so McGill is assigned as his bodyguard. However Rudyard,the defendants' crooked lawyer,has engaged heavies to make sure that Rufus does not get to court. McGill has to keep him alive for twenty four hours.
Fri, May 3, 1968
Rachel Thyssen, McGill's ex-girlfriend, spots her father Harry, who supposedly drowned years ago. Harry was McGill's boss in American intelligence, from which McGill was forced to resign, scapegoated when LaFarbe, a scientist under observation, defected to Russia. Harry died, it was thought, before he could clear McGill's name. In reality, he is now undercover, relaying secrets back from LaFarbe, a double agent working for the Americans, back to the West. McGill needs his help, but he is not the only one on Harry's trail - the Russians are also taking an interest in him.
Fri, Aug 23, 1968
Max Stein,a Russian spymaster who has defected to the West,has stolen a million dollars and deposited them in a bank in Lisbon. He is shot but,before he dies,tells McGill of the cash's location. Against advice from a C.I.A. buddy McGill makes arrangements to travel to Portugal but he is followed by Russians and Americans alike.
Fri, Jul 26, 1968
McGill goes to the Cotswolds in pursuit of a little boy, Stephen, who has been kidnapped by the surly locals. The boy is the illegitimate son of aspiring politician Michael Hornsby, a fact of which his tolerant wife is aware. Though Hornsby does not have the required amount of ransom money demanded by Stephen's captors, McGill urges to play along with them and goes to meet the abductors and to face a gun battle.
Wed, Nov 22, 1967
McGill is hired by a female art dealer to locate Foley, a former World War Two soldier, who claims to know the whereabouts of a rare Botticelli painting he found in Italy. However the picture has been painted over to appear worthless and Foley's landlady has sold it to a junk shop. McGill is, however, not the only man hunting for the picture as Foley's wartime colleague Kershaw has also joined the chase.