An exploding motorbike. Air-conditioning ducts spewing cyanide gas. Terrorists, beautiful women, lethal snakes, butt-kicking action and a young Burt Reynolds: Operation C.I.A. has 'em all! Reynolds takes an early starring role as C.I.A. agent Mark Andrews, who's plunged into Vietnam-era intrigue after another agent is murdered before he can deliver a crucial message to the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. Charged with the investigation, Mark arrives in Vietnam posing as an agricultural expert. So many people want to help him -- an alluring French spy, a Vietnamese professor, a British journalist. But in a wartorn world of double crosses and sudden death, Mark discovers that if he wants to stay alive, the only one he can trust is himself.