The war was just starting to erupt across national borders. Its titular hero, Johnny Jones, is now a American crime reporter discharged by his own New York publisher to put a fresh twist on the drowsy dispatches emanating from overseas, his nose for a fantastic story promptly causing him to the offense of fascism and Nazi Germany's layouts on European conquest In trying to find out more of a seemingly noble serenity campaign, Jones who walks into the middle of an assassination, uncovers a spy ring, and, not entirely coincidentally, falls into love.