Desperation is the penultimate novel in the cycle of works about the Soviet intelligence officer Maksim Isaev—the legendary Max Otto von Stirlitz.
After the war, Stirlitz ends up in Latin America, where, with the help of American intelligence and the Mafia, he kidnaps Müller from a Nazi base in Argentina and makes it to the Soviet embassy. But they don’t believe him here and immediately begin using him in their own political games… You will learn what blows of fate await Stirlitz and what fate is reserved for Sashenka Gavrilova, the love of his entire life.