After the adventure at Aspen, Mister No returns to New York, but he finds that the situation is not as rosy as he might have liked. The mobster Masulli, who is in league with the corrupt Captain Williams, holds the city in thrall, and life is hard for Jerry (also because his Detective friend Phil Mulligan has been killed by Masulli’s men!). Ratso asks him to collaborate in staging a false kidnapping – of Ratso himself - designed to worm money out of his rich father. But there is an unexpected development…