Jimmy Fane is a young, naive American junior diplomat serving in Eastern Europe in the years leading up to WWII. He has gone missing and his sister, Patricia, suspects Dr. Adolf Grundt to be involved. She convinces a small group of men, recommended by Major Okewood, to go in search of him and they in turn decide this is the chance to finally do away with Clubfoot, now a man without a country having been exiled from Nazi Germany and said to be earning a good living buying and selling secrets of all nations.