Esta serie se sumerge en el turbulento período anterior a la Segunda Guerra Mundial, retratando magistralmente la complejidad de las relaciones humanas en medio de un conflicto inminente. Sigue a los personajes mientras navegan por tensiones políticas y luchas personales, experimentando una vívida descripción de las dificultades de la época. Las narrativas combinan expertamente la precisión histórica con la profundidad emocional, capturando la esencia de un mundo al borde de la transformación. Es una lectura cautivadora para los fanáticos de la ficción histórica y los dramas centrados en los personajes.
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.