Thrush, led by the nervous Louis Strago and his assassin secretary Miss Diketon, has embarked on an ambitious project. The organization has recruited a Nazi scientist who once theorized by changing the Gulf Stream, you could make Iceland into a lush, green country and make Europe into a frozen wasteland. Thrush is prepared to make the scientist's dream a reality. By the end of Part I, Napoleon Solo faces a forced marriage to a relative of retired gangsters while Illya Kuryakin is being tortured by Miss Diketon.
—Bill Koenig