Hunter is investigating the mysterious suicide of scientist Dr Brian Tolhurst who was working on an anti-missile project. Following a lead that Tolhurt's car contains evidence of foul play, Hunter comes within seconds of death,
Learning that Dr Tolhurst has a secret association with a showgirl Rosie Glow, she now becomes the only lead in the investigation of Dr Tolhurst's death. Hunter and Eve Halliday go undercover and follow Rosie to Surfer's Paradise.
Rosie confesses that she helped CUCW agents fake divorce evidence against Dr Tolhurst. Bettman plots Hunter's death in an aircraft accident and Kragg makes another attempt to kill Rosie.
After attempting to kill Hunter in a plane crash, Hunter overpowers Bettman and takes him to Melbourne. Mrs Tolhurst gives Hunter a letter asking her late husband to visit Solomon, an Opal dealer in Andamooka, South Australia.
Mrs Tolhurst and Eve are kidnapped and held aboard a yacht in Melbourne by CUCW agents who use a repair shop replacing eyes in toy dolls as a cover. Hunter is tricked into visiting an opal dealer where an attempt is made to kill him.
Hunter and astronaut Col. Benedict see the firing of the Prometheus weapon. Hunter is assigned to protect Benedict on his Australian tour. In order to sabotage a planned four-man space probe, Kragg and Smith plot to kidnap Benedict.
After kidnapping Col. Benedict, the CUCW deceives a student group into hiding him. Hunter traces Benedict to Melbourne's outer suburbs and finds Kragg, disguised as a left-wing journalist, attempting to murder Benedict in a car accident.
Hunter saves Colonel Benedict's life after Kragg has abandoned him in a van careering down a hillside. Hunter meets members of the Australian Student Protest whose lives are threatened because of CUCW reaction.
Kragg deceives Australian Student Protest member Jamie Porter into believing that Australian and US security agents arranged the murder of his friend Kelly, and that he is next on the list.
Student Jamie Porter is drugged and goaded into assassinating Colonel Benedict as he drives through Melbourne's streets in the Moomba procession. Hunter intercepts Porter on top of a building overlooking the CBD.
Hunter, disguised as a navy commander, and Eve go to Singapore where a major disarmament conference is to be held between the West and Russia. The CUCW intend to sabotage the conference by murdering a Russian agent and blaming the British.
Russian agents kidnap Eve, believing British and Australian agents kidnapped Loschenko. Hunter traces him to a sampam on Singapore Harbour, where he is held captive by the CUCW, but the boat carrying the drugged Loschenko has a bomb.
Kragg is ordered to kill Andrea, a girl employed by the Russian Embassy, who had been giving information to the CUCW for sabotaging the conference. Hunter has his first encounter with Kragg when they fight on a taxiing aircraft.