A wealthy family finds trouble when their young son is kidnapped. All Nick Carter has to go on, is the handwritten ransom note. Clues soon lead to a hotel, and the handwriting is linked to a forger who Nick sent to the big house a few years ago. How did a forger get wrapped up in kidnapping?

Convenient clues are dropped so Nick’s sidekick can overhear, and as the listener is whisked to another scene, we learn why. An entire team of disgruntled criminals are at work to get revenge on our master detective. Will Nick be walking into their trap? After being slipped a Mickey, the only thing keeping Nick alive is that none of the crooks want to be left out of the picture when they do him in.

Finding himself tied up, Nick does his best to escape. Is there any hope to fight his way to safety? What about the kidnapped boy? Henry has been a pawn so far to lure Nick into a trap, but will the crooks settle for the ransom? Nick seems to take a Hands off approach, but the kidnappers don’t think about being tracked from a plane in the sky.