Nicky Marlow needs a job. He s engaged to be married and the employment marketis pretty slim in Britain in 1937. So when his fianc points out the SpartacusMachi... » 

Nicky Marlow needs a job. He s engaged to be married and the employment marketis pretty slim in Britain in 1937. So when his fianc points out the SpartacusMachine Tool notice he jumps at the chance. After all he speaks Italian andhe figures he ll be able to endure Milan for a year long enough to save somemoney. Soon after he arrives however he learns the sinister truth of hispredecessor s death and finds himself courted by two agents with dangerouslydifferent agendas. In the process Marlow realizes it s not so simple to justdo the job he s paid to do in fascist Italy on the eve of a world war. «