This is the seventh in a series of nine novels based on the television series "Get Smart". This book tells the story of how Maxwell Smart, and his female partner Agent 99, are required to take a rocket scientist named Professor Wormser von Boom, to a secret laboratory at the North Pole. To do this, and to foil the villainous group known as KAOS, Max begins by taking the Professor to Africa, and then up, through Russia, before arriving at their destination. Along the way they lose track of him... Several times. This seventh book was released in 1968.

Get Smart, books by William Johnston, each book was originally priced at 60¢;
1. Get Smart! #T-103
2. Sorry, Chief... #T-119
3. Get Smart Once Again #T-121
4. Max Smart and the Perilous Pellets #T-140
5. Missed it by That Much! #T-154
6. And Loving It! #T-159
7. Max Smart - The Spy Who Went Out to the Cold #T-174
8. Max Smart Loses CONTROL #T-191
9. Max Smart and The Ghastly Ghost Affair #T-5326