Missing Link

Bobby Jack Billings, the unnamed President’s brother-in-law, disappears during a plutonium influence negotiation with Libyan officials. CURE investigates before the President requests help. After thwarting Janie Baby and Tony’s planned coal-plant attack by having Chiun detonate their car’s explosives, Remo pursues the disappearance. Billings’s notes claim he is held by PLOTZ, whose public information campaign teaches children to set fires. Chiun kills its leader Freddy Zentz; Jessica Lester steals its files and follows its financier Earl Slimone to Boston. Remo learns Jessica is a private former British agent hired by Libya to find and deliver Billings. She tries unsuccessfully to kill Remo, warns Slimone’s staff and continues toward Newport.

Remo and Chiun defeat the Boston ambush and follow. At The Springs, seven guards capture Jessica; the pair intervene and kill the attackers while she enters the house. Billings and Slimone are together as friends, and Billings agrees they staged the disappearance to evade grand-jury scrutiny of campaign financing. During removal from the house, Slimone grabs a gun and Jessica steps in front of Remo; their simultaneous shots kill both. Billings then dies at the electrified rail after Remo directs him toward the tracks; Remo says he forgot the power was on, without explicit confirmation of deliberate intent. Smith’s public account falsely assigns electrocution to Slimone too, has Kaffir expelled and concludes the President did not order the disappearance. He forbids Remo and Chiun from entering the 1980 Olympics; the precise story year remains unstated.