An African mining engineer on vacation in London finds the life of a socialite, Richard Hannay, to be utterly monotonous. When a secret agent storms into his room and hands him a coded notebook on the impending outbreak of World War I, he finds out that this is more than he bargained. In little time at all, Hannay is being pursued by German operatives and the British authorities, who are both lusting after the Roman numerals code, which Hannay believes he must crack himself.
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An African mining engineer on vacation in London finds the life of a socialite, Richard Hannay, to be utterly monotonous. When a secret agent storms into his room and hands him a coded notebook on the impending outbreak of World War I, he finds out that this is more than he bargained. In little time at all, Hannay is being pursued by German operatives and the British authorities, who are both lusting after the Roman numerals code, which Hannay believes he must crack himself.
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