When Remo and Chiun put their skills on the auction block, CURE is going...going...gone
Budget cuts are every administrator's nightmare, but CURE's own Dr. Harold Smith has a real whopper. A battle over bullion prompts Chiun to seek better pastures, and he's dragging Remo along.
Word spreads like wildfire: the fabled assassins of the House of Sinanju are hiring out to the highest bidder. While the desperate Dr. Smith is panicking big-time, rogue nations are trying to beat out, burn down and bump off the competition - before the highest bid gets the goods.
It's a seller's market for the lethal duo, and their success is assured - if there's anything left of the planet after the bidding way.
This time Hillary has done it. She whines and whines until Billy-boy gives her the budget cuts she is demanding. One of the budgets cut is the main agency that CURE siphons it's secret funds from. With the CURE secret accounts frozen, and Chiun in the middle of new contract negotiations, Dr. Smith is in dire straits. Unable to have his demands met, Chiun and Remo walk.
The deadly duo traipse the globe looking for new employment. The problem is that those countries not trying to hire the Sinanju masters, are trying to off them instead!
One of the more bizarre in the series, Chiun entertains a bid from the Pope, presidents, dictators and more!