Reilly, Ace of Spies

Sigmund Rosenblum is on a mission in Russia. His train is stopped and he is arrested, but he escapes and travels to London. There, he compromises Margaret Thomas, the young wife of a rich clergyman.

Intelligence from Reilly in Port Arthur enables the Japanese Navy to sink the Russian Pacific Squadron. Margaret Reilly has an affair with Greenberg and leaves her husband. Reilly is seized by the Russians.

Reilly is posted to a German munitions factory, with the mission of stealing the designs of a new naval gun.

Reilly is in France, searching for Margaret, his wandering wife, and an Australian oil tycoon, and also competing with the Rothschilds to buy oil concessions in the Middle East.

On a mission to St Petersburg, Reilly investigates a deal for German shipyards to rebuild the Russian navy.

Reilly has fallen in love with Nadia, the wife of his friend Count Massino, and his lawyer friend Grammaticoff has some advice for him.

Reilly and Grammaticoff arrive in Moscow with a million dollars in cash. Reilly plans to overthrow the Bolsheviks, who are in the process of making peace with Germany.

Reilly makes careful plans to take control of Moscow, but his coup misfires when Lenin brings forward a meeting of the Congress.

Reilly is back in London, where he arranges a loan of $250,000,000 for the Bolsheviks. While they are in London, a revolutionary tribunal in Moscow sentences Reilly and Bruce Lockhart to death, in their absence.

It's New York, in the year 1924, and Reilly persuades Henry Ford to put up the money for an invasion of Russia. But Reilly is betrayed by Eugenie, his secretary, and kills her.

Reilly marries Pepita, then he seeks revenge for the death of Savinkov. He arranges for Stalin to arrest him, destroying the Trust backed by the Cheka.

Reilly disappears in Russia again, and this time Pepita goes to look for him. He is in the Loubianka, being tortured. The British prime minister, Stanley Baldwin, considers mounting a rescue attempt, and Stalin gives orders for Reilly to be killed.