This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Seven secret service men have completely disappeared. Another has been found a screaming, homicidal maniac, whose fingers writhed like snakes. It is now up to Bell, of the secret «Trade,» who plunges into South America and goes after the Master—the mighty, unknown octopus of powers, whose diabolical poison threatens the entire continent and push it into the chaos of madness!