suspects that most of the money Kent collects to benefit various charities, ends up in his own Swiss bank account, so Al has to find out if Kent is planning anything devious. After the showing, the paintings are being formally turned over to the United States by Oliver Kent. When the pageant ends in 48 hours, all the girls will be free to leave the country, so Noah tells Al that's all the time he has to figure out what ''38-23-36'' means, and to reĪl is sent to Rome to watch over the Three Virgins of Rome, three paintings by Raphael worth 15 million dollars that have been reunited and are being publicly displayed together for the first time in over a century. Noah sends Al to the pageant undercover, replacing Eric Zerko, Target Magazine's top reporter and fashion photographer. Noah suspect's one of the contestants of being a free-lance agent, who took advantage of the opportunity, stole the microdot, and is negotiating to sell it to the highest bidder. to check out the girls, but the agent was stabbed outside the contestant's hotel, and the last thing he said before he died was ''38-23-36''. After they had been on a private guided tour of the Pentagon, a routine check of top-secret information revealed that a microdot pertaining to H.A.W.K., the anti-I.C.B.M.

Unfortunately for Nick, Al makes sure that the real treaty never makeīefore competing in the Miss United Nations Beauty Pageant, in N.Y., a group of international beauties are touring the U.S. Nick figures this out and decides to deliver all 15 treaties to the buyer and let him determine the ''real'' one. To confuse Nick, Al sends 15 fake doctors with 15 fake treaties to Nick's room during the hour that the real treaty is to be delivered. Al decides to steal the Kimberly Diamond, 70 carats and worth $1,000,000, as his cover as to why he is in Rome, and as a way to get to Nick, who this time, does not trust Al, but can't resist a chance at the diamond. The treaty, disguised as technical documents, will be passed at a convention of doctors all carrying similar documents. Nick is handling this deal to square things with the Russian's, who almost killed him over that deal. Noah wants Al to steal it back when the treaty passes through an intermediary, Nick Grobbo, a fence Al handled before by fouling up his Palium deal. Al flies to Rome to recover a top secret mutual defense treaty with Latavia, which was stolen.

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