A penniless Countess poses as a charitable lady, but instead, she leads a ring of unstoppable jewel thieves with a flair for breaking and entering into the houses of her careless rich guests.
Persuaded to follow a defecting civil servant who has been tricked into smuggling secret papers into East Germany, Simon finds himself playing the part of a British agent to save the man's life.
Something evil is afoot at a gentleman's academy.
When agents in Lord Barnes's department at the Ministry of Top Secret Information are murdered, all the evidence points to an enemy agent named Kartovski.