Richard Pleuger

The eventful tale of Worldly-Wise, an adventurer who enters the service of an aging ruler in order to seek for him a successor. Unable to find a worthy heir, Worldly-Wise succumbs to the temptation to seize power himself.

An American girl Gina Lee has become disenchanted with her hometown. She buys an airline ticket to Vienna where she becomes embroiled in an intrigue to uncover buried Nazi plunder resulting in her drowning, yet her fate remains unresolved.