The continuation of the gripping story of the time-traveler Kostya Zvyaginzev.
Fate throws Kostya Zvyaginzev into the German rear once again, where he takes part in a combat operation of a partisan unit and unwittingly becomes involved in a secret operation called “Archive.” Together with a colonel from the Abwehr whom he captures, he returns to Moscow—where he finds the secret archive that Soviet counterintelligence had been persistently searching for. As a reward, he is sent to study at a school of foreign intelligence. Assigned to Switzerland, after five months of work abroad, Kostya decides not to return to the Soviet Union. With knowledge of the future and a connection to a major German industrialist—someone he once saved—Konstantin Zvyaginzev gradually builds a powerful trading-and-industrial empire with branches in most countries around the world.