A Show for the Traitor

The enemy is smart and cold-blooded. In his arsenal: logic, persistence, and precise calculations. He’s convinced he knows how to defeat us in this clash. But the enemy doesn’t account for one thing: in his way stand super-professionals of their craft—people of risk, honor, and unbending will: Soviet counterintelligence agents. In the apartment, two people in plain clothes were waiting for him. Without long conversations, they presented a well-known professor of virology with accusations of collaborating with foreign intelligence and produced indisputable evidence. For many years, the professor and his daughter Dina had been passing secret information to Western special services. That was enough for the highest sentence… However, the Committee has an offer. Many years ago, an academician named Luchinsky fled abroad—someone who knew the professor’s family well. According to the information, it is he who is currently overseeing the development of a “dirty” atomic bomb. We need to lure the traitor back home to put him on trial. To do that, Dina and KGB major Andrey Zimin, posing as newlyweds, must travel abroad and convincingly stage a real drama there…

“In Valery Sharaпов’s novels, you can feel the passage of time so strongly that it seems, just a little more—and you’ll find yourself among the characters of these books: calm investigators, treacherous criminals, frightened citizens. And desperate detectives will take you for one of their own and immediately bring you along on the next dangerous operation…” — Sergey ZVEREV, author of action novels