Another case for intelligence officer Stas Kondratyev, known to us from the book “Pretender.” Kondratyev travels to a quiet European state to return to Russia a secret item of significant military-technical value.
The intelligence services of several countries, competing with private clients, join the search for the item. Kondratyev feels their excessive attention. The situation is heating up. On top of all that, someone starts eliminating the competitors…
And only in Moscow does Kondratyev begin to realize that in this scheme he had been assigned the modest role of a “dupe” — and nothing more.