An old-fashioned caper adventure set in pre-World War II Washington DC, The Red Machine is the tale of a charming and irrepressible young thief who is forced to help an icy and mysterious United States Navy spy steal a brand new device that the Japanese military is using to encode its top-secret messages. During the mission, which is complicated by the spy's dark past in Tokyo, the two discover that they are pawns in a larger game. Together, they devise an intricate but risky scheme to outwit the people trying to use them. L
