Táto séria sa ponára do búrlivého obdobia pred druhou svetovou vojnou a majstrovsky vykresľuje zložitosť ľudských vzťahov tvárou v tvár hroziacemu konfliktu. Sledujte postavy, ako sa pretĺkajú politickým napätím a osobnými výzvami, a zažite živý obraz dobových strád. Príbehy dokonale kombinujú historickú presnosť s emocionálnou hĺbkou, zachytávajúc podstatu sveta na pokraji zmeny. Je to pútavé čítanie pre milovníkov histórie aj psychologických drám.
1935: Harry Jardine is a soldier of fortune. Forced to flee Hamburg after helping Jews escape Nazi Germany, he is recruited to smuggle guns from Rumania into Abyssinia, under threat of Italian invasion. But seeing how ill-equipped the Ethiopians are to face the Italian army, can Jardine just walk away?
Having returned from Abyssinia, soldier of fortune Cal Jardine is convinced to travel to Barcelona and help facilitate rival athletic games to the Berlin Olympics. But now he finds himself in Spain as the first shots of civil war ring out; and the demands of friendship, love, and politics embroil Jardine once again in foreign war.
As Hitler sets his sights on the Sudetenland, not everyone in Britain is willing to appease him. Convinced that the Fuehrer's land-hunger is insatiable, the head of the SIS recruits Cal Jardine to help him prove zechoslovakia is threatened with invasion.