A Brooklyn gangster. A Russian gangster. A comedy writer in the middle.
When a dead uncle leaves a $30K debt to a Brooklyn gangster, he demands Dorothy pay it.
A Russian gangster in New Jersey kidnaps Dorothy to write a James Bond-style movie for him to star in.
A humor writer for magazines and a joke writer for stand-up comedians, Dorothy’s clients panic when the writer disappears.
Trapped between the gangsters, an elderly man helps Dorothy escape to Iceland, only to vanish, leaving the writer as a murder suspect. Problems increase when another gang, rivals of the Brooklyn and Russian gangsters, pressures Dorothy for a deadly favor. A wealthy ex-gangster in Taiwan, owner of a publishing empire and nightclub, hires the writer. Desperate, Dorothy heads to the island hoping to get back to work.
The James Bond-style movie premieres in London. Dorothy returns to England. A plot is hatched to kidnap the writer. Gangsters turn up at a celebratory party demanding a cut of the movie’s profits. But threats are made. Then guns are drawn.
