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Italian mafia Carlo Grandi's estate where his daughter Gina has been kept in solitary confinement by her father after a failed kidnap attempt in Italy. He immediately gets to work at the heavily guarded villa, with dogs and electric fences, where he is met with co-guard Jack Marvin, a difficult supervisor Amando and a Japanese cook Suka. Gina takes a liking for Frost and confides in him. Gina is weird, and actually dislikes her father for confining her and wants to escape from the villa.
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Umney relays Grandi's intention to Frost, and tells him that Silk will eventually find and kill him. The undaunted Mike Frost decides to fight for life vehemently by killing the gang and returning to where he came from. He goes armed to the hotel where the gang is staying and begins a gunfight,
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