A mysterious bout of narcolepsy has overtaken the seaside hamlet of Land's End, a problem endemic to the region since the shipwreck of the Ardent Somdomite a century ago. Inspector Weymouth Smith and unconvinced cohort, Dr. Obregon Petrie, attempt to thwart Fu Manchu's latest ploy for world domination while confronting South American Piyas and matching wits with a club-footed ex-Stasi, as well as battling the latest technological crazes and their own drug dependencies.