On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun…

Vincent Floyd, a seeming lazy figure lounging around London Gentleman’s Clubs is in fact a secret agent hot on the trail of Michael Marlowe whom he suspects of smuggling drugs…

In France, an inspector solves the poisoning of his rich aunt.

The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States. A bloody border incident puts both sides on high alert.