Right at a table in a city café, in broad daylight, Valeria Fyodorovna Kudimova dies. The investigation quickly finds out that immediately before her death, in the same café, she met two young women—an American woman, Laura Kortina, an employee of the CIA, and a Russian woman, Vika Spesivtseva, who worked only for herself. Which of these two killed her? Or maybe there was a third person? Perhaps the reason and the solution to Kudimova’s death lie in the past—in those fantastically distant times when blue trolleybuses drove along the streets and Volgas rode “with a deer,” when poetic readings gathered whole stadiums, when the most revered profession was that of a cosmonaut, and two superpowers—the USA and the USSR—were entangled in a deadly struggle threatening the destruction of all humankind...