KICK START

The British ace of motorized vehicles and rather mechanized plots who can probably make the tyres of a kiddie car squeal is back again -- this time with Kroll and his Norton Commando (a motorcycle in case you didn't know). Kroll is first assigned to steal a rock called the Eiger Diamond, then released to retrieve a canister of deadly bacteria in Tunis, and finally involved with some moon stones as well as a beautiful woman. Now you see it, now you don't, through the fumes of the exhaust, but there's a consistent readership for Rutherford's road performances.