The door was not locked, and opened easily. He switched on the light,
and Richard followed him into the room. Nella lay on the bed. She had on
the nightdress she had been lent, but the bedclothes had been pulled
halfway down. Her head was twisted back grotesquely. Her mouth gaped
open and her tongue had been cut out. It had been carefully placed in
the valley between her naked breasts.
The Duke de Richleau and his friends had faced many dangers in Russia,
Spain, and Nazi Germany. Now, a new and unexpected menace confronts
them: The fourth member of their group, Rex van Ryn, is missing--and he
has made off with more than a million dollars from the Buenos Aires
branch of his family bank. Behind the conventional courtesy of
Argentinian society lies a conspiracy of terror and silence--and a trail
that leads straight to the Devil himself....