Frank Scott is a much reviled senator who has mysteriously disappeared. Milo works for a small New York trucking company summers to pay his college tuition. When he finds that the safe he picked up for shipment to the senator's Washington office should not have been as heavy as he found it, he gets an idea. Perhaps meeting Athalie, the petite blonde daughter of one of Scott's enemies, has inspired him? The ending is a little flat, and there's less of Scherf's trade-mark humor in this book.