Agent Nine Solves His First Case: A Story of the Daring Exploits of the "g" Men

It's 1935, and the world holds its breath between two world wars. Bob Houston and Tully Ross are just clerks in the War Department's archive division, filing papers and dreaming of something more. Then their uncles federal agents pull them into a dangerous game. Foreign spies are hunting for radio secrets stored within the very building where these young men check inboxes. Director Edgar transforms the clerks into special agents, ordering them to become inside men in their own workplace, hunting the spy among their colleagues before classified military technology falls into enemy hands. The tension crackles: an attempted break-in, a suspicious coworker named Tully Ross, and the creeping dread that anyone could be a traitor. This is G-man fiction at its purest, that peculiar 1930s American fantasy of ordinary clerks becoming heroes, of secret wars fought in filing rooms, of loyalty and betrayal tangled together. It endures because it captures a specific American moment when the country was terrified of enemies within and without, and found solace in stories of brave young men rising to meet the danger.