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Two Tickets for Tangiers

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Colonel Hugh North is sent to Tangier. His mission is to locate a German scientist named Franz Vogel who has been working in Russia since the end of World War II.

Vogel has invented a deadly new gas called "thulium - X.' He has carried the formula for the gas only in his head. Since escaping from Russia, Vogel has been hiding in Tangier. Marya Bessemer, a German lady whose main occupation has been dealing in forged passports, has been acting as a broker for Vogel.

Marya is now interested primarily in making as much money as possible for herself on any transaction involving the formula.

North is delayed enroute from London to Tangier because of a plane crash at sea. He survives the crash and recuperates in Paris. Meanwhile an imposter arrives in Tangier and negotiates with Marya for the formula. The imposter is really Major Reginald Travis, formerly of Her Majesty's Grenadier Guards.

Since being dismissed from the service because of a scandal, Travis has been working as a spy for Moscow.

Major Travis meets with Vogel and manages to get the formula which Vogel puts into writing. He makes only one copy. Travis then kills Vogel and goes under cover in Tangier while he waits for a meeting with the notorious Russian agent Ilya Kyushev, the paymaster for this job.

North has a big challenge waiting for him in Tangier. First he has to convince the local authorities that he is the real Colonel North. Next he has to track down Travis before he hands over the formula to Kyushev. North gets a lot of help on this case from Lady Angela Forrester, a British intelligence operative.