Maurice Crillon is a brilliant French artist and art forger with a silver tongue and a silken touch with women. When his mother dies he learns that his father was an English baronet. His curiosity gets the better of him and he decides to meet his parent. But then he becomes entangled in an adventure in which he unwittingly becomes the quarry of the security services of two nations. Agents for the Mafia are also extremely interested in Crillon - and all of them are bent on recovering certain incriminating documents which have now fallen into his possession...… (more)