New times, new opportunities—and new problems…
Moscow, 1919. The People’s Commissariat for Health project on factory-scale penicillin production is gaining momentum. The project is led by our old acquaintance, Dr. Ivan Pavlovich Petrov, the first deputy to the People’s Commissar. As part of international cooperation, a prominent international delegation arrives in Moscow… Only, are they truly who they claim to be? Are they faces—or masks?
The plot of the “envoys” and the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries was uncovered last year, and an assassination attempt on Lenin was prevented. However, the enemies of Soviet Russia do not abandon their intrigues and provocations. Meanwhile, in the world, “Spanish flu” is raging—the first “covid-era” pandemic…