Continuing his work as a double agent, pretending to favor the fascist ideas to stay in good with Hitler and his advisers, especially Goering, Lanny Budd is really passing back all he learns to FDR. During his time in England, he tries to warn the PM, Chamberlain, to the dangers he is seeing, to no avail. The period covered in this book is 1939-1940 and ends with Budd having to outwit the Gestapo to bring a young woman hunted by them to freedom.