Judas's Deputy

The early 1980s. Soviet counterintelligence receives a signal from its source in Washington that in Moscow there is an agent recruited by the Americans operating under the operational pseudonym Faust. From the brief description it becomes clear that this person is somehow connected with the Committee. The task of identifying and neutralizing the traitor is assigned to KGB major Vladislav Purgin. He carefully goes through possible candidates. But as the work progresses, the list of suspects rapidly shrinks. The last remaining surname shocks the major…

The enemy is clever and cold-blooded. In his arsenal are logic, persistence, and precise calculation. He is sure he knows how to defeat us in this showdown. But the enemy doesn’t account for one thing: superprofessionals stand in his way—people of risk, honor, and unbending will: Soviet counterintelligence officers.

“In Valery Sharapov’s novels, time is so palpable that it feels as if—just a bit more—you’d find yourself among the heroes of these books: calm investigators, cunning criminals, frightened citizens. And desperate detectives will mistake you for one of their own and immediately take you on the next dangerous operation…” — Sergey ZVEREV, author of action novels.