故事发生在1900年,美国人马修是一个神枪手,为了一则招募神枪手的广告他跋涉了三个月来到澳大利亚,途中还顺便解救了一位把他错认为是男友的姑娘“疯狂”考娜。他们来到了马斯顿农场,却发现农场主马斯顿的雇佣他的目的是要让他射杀当地的土著人。愤怒的马修把马斯顿扔出房间,却被农场的打手们打的不省人事。然后又和考娜一起被扔到丛林中让他们自生自灭。二人被土著人救起。但得知了消息的马斯顿随即高价悬赏马休的人头,并派出手下追杀他们。面对马斯顿的嚣张和土著人的善良,认真起来的马修和考娜二人的报复同样冷酷而残忍。
Childhood friends Tommy and Tuppence meet in London after having served in World War I. Recently "demobed", short of money, and with no job prospects, they decide to become adventurers for hire. Soon, they are employed by the British Government to locate a secret treaty signed before the war.
The true story is of Ivan Sanchin, the KGB officer who was Stalin's private film projectionist from 1939 until Stalin's death. Told from Sanchin's view, the sympathetic but tragically flawed hero, squirrel, maintains unwavering faith in his "Master" despite the arrest of his neighbors and his involvement with their daughter, his wife's affair with the chilling State Security chief Lavrentii Beria and her tragic decline, and the deadly political machinations within the Kremlin he witnesses firsthand.