In this first adventure of Doc Savage, he is targeted for assassination by the Kremlin and fated for a confrontation with a nemesis more violent and vicious than any he has faced before, the Man of Bronze must evade a faceless executioner known only as The Red Widow - a mistress of disguise and empress of pain, as well as a soul-devouring human spider prepared to strike without warning. Chapters: #1 Death Sentence #2 War Talk #3 Unwelcome Welcome #4 Moonwinx #5 Bronze Man #6 Unpleasant Discovery #7 Arrest #8 Moonwinx, Actual #9 The Useful Widow #10 Rendezvous in Evanger #11 Two Black Sheep #12 A Wall Closing In #13 Violence for Breakfast #14 Passenger Unknown #15 Dark Encounter #16 The Shortening Rope #17 The Bottom Fell Out #18 Flight #19 Journey Into Mystery #20 Tundra Turmoil #21 Kill a Red Widow #22 The Moon Winked Back