The third time round for that tony, trendy, Modesty Blaise-ish Lady Jennifer Norrington and her acolytes, Colly Tucker and Sandro, first met after a pheasant shoot in England when eight people are machine-gunned and a calling card is left, ALA. They go on to Africa to determine the archivist of SIPHEN, a bird-and-beast conservationist society, who might represent the earlier acronym and who is obviously a madman-murderer. He is, but ALA stands for something else again. Again an overexerted extravaganza with a spritz of foreign words like stupidissima which will apply unless you're very impressionable.