Nathan Fox is an actor in the same company as Will Shakespeare. A skilled acrobat, he picks up accents and languages easily: talents that catch the eye of England's Spymaster General. Recruited as an agent - and partnered with fearless spy, John Pearce - Nathan is trained in the arts that will keep him alive.

His first mission takes Nathan Fox to Venice - into the eye of an explosive situation involving the formidable General Othello...