It begins in the luxurious restaurant of a New York hotel, where wealthy American Devereux Austin is drawn into a melodrama of secret papers and German agents. Sailing for Europe on the Re d’Italia, he becomes entangled with a mysterious girl and with the Firefly, a celebrated French aviator, as spies tighten their web across wartime France.
A lively First World War spy romance of 1918, later made into a silent film. Download the free EPUB.