In 1939, Rick Albright, a contract player for 20th Century Fox, has another vocation, that of political assassin. While dating the daughter of the local Mafia chief, he is recruited by him to be an assassin for the Mafia. He graduates to working for the Italian Government and then the German government in the same role on the eve of World War II. When the German pocket battleship Graf Spee battles a British Cruiser Squadron, it retires to Montevideo for repairs. The pro British Uruguayans pressure the Germans to sail from Montevideo with the Royal Navy waiting for them in the Atlantic. Rick is summoned to Montevideo to shoot the president, creating chaos and drawing attention away from the damaged battleship. Rick encounters a young girl, Luisa, and her brother begging in the streets, and he is moved. He invites them to stay at his flat. He fulfills his mission and then they are on the run, with the authorities looking for them. They cross the Plate to Argentina and hook up with a 20th movie crew filming there. Rick wonders how long they will be able to escape the manhunt for the assassin. The Germans plan to liquidate Rick to cover their tracks. What will happen to Luisa and him when the filming is done? Montevideo is a fast paced, sweeping story covering fifteen years in Hollywood, South America, the capitals of Europe, and the Middle East.

Jack Latourneau, an OSS agent, works with Maquis leader Philippe Boudrey behind enemy lines in France and in Indochina during WWII, leaving his comfortable upper class existence for a world of espionage and assassination that changes his life forever. work at Georgetown University. He falls in love with Christin, which leads to a confrontation with her former boyfriend, Walt. Walt attacks him and Jack leaves him unconscious on the floor. Terrified, Christin accuses him of trying to kill Walt and their relationship ends. Intelligence Service, to establish an intelligence network in Indochina, where the French are fighting a guerrilla war. In Hanoi, he has a relationship with a beautiful Algerian dancer, Faud. When the French are defeated at Dien Bien Phu, Jack returns to Georgetown. He meets Christin again, who is now married to Walt, and they become embroiled in a hopeless love affair. against Muslim terrorists in Algeria, gathering intelligence and eradicating their infrastructure, which ultimately leads to the terrorist's destruction in Algiers and in the countryside. Jack miraculously finds Faud again. France. Jack joins the OAS, the Secret Army, and fights for a French Algeria. He is part of an abortive attempt to assassinate deGaulle and becomes a hunted man in Metropolitan France. On the verge of capture, he is approached by a CIA agent who was sent to get him out of France. With the French police all around them, they desperately search for a way to escape...