In
Paris, Silver Sable tells Hawkeye about the impostor Red Skull in Algeria who
has stolen a timing device for nuclear warheads; Sable had sent an agent but he
has disappeared. She would like Hawkeye to accompany a second agent on the
mission to recover the timer and then she will intercede with the French
government to allow him to go home….
In
Algeria, Hawkeye meets up with the other agent, Le Peregrine, after Clint has
already made his presence clear by battling some baddies. Following clues left
by the missing agent, the two heroes enter a home, open a hidden passageway,
and descend into a secret lab where they find the Red Skull, gloating over his
plans to blackmail the world. Hawkeye and Peregrine jump in, fight the bad guys
and break open a vat of sand, revealing Sable’s missing agent—the Sandman. The
three agents mop up Red Skull’s men but the sinister leader sets the timer on a
nuclear warhead and tries to escape. Hawkeye disables his escape craft with a
well-placed shot and the problem of the bomb is solved by Sandman inundating
the timer with an armful of sand. They turn the bad guys over to the
authorities and worry about informing Silver Sable they destroyed the device
instead of retrieving it….