Hotel Europe in Tientsin is the meeting point for Western wheeler-dealers and spies. Ugo gets there to join his father, but the old man is not in the hotel. Ugo doesnt have time to think about this, because hes taken as a hostage by to Australian arms dealer who are hunted by German soldiers. Along with him, a woman is abducted: its a friend of his fathers, the attractive Lady Jane Stanton, who will soon reveal shes really not a helpless damsel...