Klaus Hitz is more interested in making money than in asking questions about his work assignment. He doesn't know it's a plot to kill everyone in the USA with a scratch and sniff virus.
German exchange student Klaus Hitz is more interested in making money than in asking questions about his work assignment. He doesn't know that the industrialist father of his punk girl friend is using him in a terrorist conspiracy to kill everyone in the United States with a mass mailing of a scratch and sniff virus. The plot unravels when a Polish nurse brings blood samples from Libya and alerts a CIA agent. While the CIA and FBI track down the terrorists, Klaus Hitz gradually figures it out. How can he avoid being murdered or imprisoned?
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"The United States is that great spider," the Colonel announced. "The great Satan. But weak as we are before the great military power of the American bully, we are the wasp. We will have our revenge. The United States has the military power and the armor to destroy our people, but we can penetrate its weakness and get our revenge. We can destroy America just as the wasp can kill the tarantula. Allah Achbar! God is great!
"We may be a weak and poor nation but we can destroy the United States for less than the cost of the two jet fighters and their brave pilots the Americans shot down over our territorial waters.
"I'm not talking about a publicity stunt. No bombings of civilian aircraft. No bombings of GI bars in Germany. And no public announcements afterwards claiming credit for our victory. This time we will be silent. And this time we will kill every American in the entire United States."
In the waning days of World War II, a man lies injured in a London hospital, shrouded in mystery and confusion. He is an American serviceman, stripped of his identity and memories, save for the name John, and plagued by vivid visions of battles that
