Narrowly escaping the tragic fate of the entire M.I. NIX section, Hilda Hopkins and mild mannered clerical assistant Clarice Leverson manage to evade the PIE-Man's hit squad and take out one of them on the way! The action starts almost from the first page as Hilda is once again on the run, this time with the fate of England resting on her chances of survival! Rescuing kidnapped Intelligence chiefs, sneaking in and out of private girl's schools and foiling the greatest threat to the Crown in the history of Great Britain is all in a day's work for our M.I. NIX operative.

Of course she finds time to get in a spot of knitting amid the murder and mayhem, Hilda is, after all, the consummate professional! Another fast paced, tautly written adventure with Britain's leading machine knitter and serial killer, Hilda Hopkins!