Gorlov Dead End

He lost everything: his officer rank, a high position, his salary, and an apartment. The case he led collapsed. The suspects were released and declared innocent. But he isn’t going to give up. He kept faith in himself and in his special mission. He begins life anew, builds a brilliant career, and gathers influential acquaintances around him. KGB generals and employees of the International Department of the Central Committee consider him theirs—useful, reliable—and have no idea that he is using them in a complex special operation he has been developing alone for years. He will prove the existence of an enemy conspiracy and the guilt of the former suspects. No one knows about his secret plans. No one tries to stop him.

No one—except a nineteen-year-old orphan girl from a dirty communal flat in the Hor lovy Lane. But she is long gone. She is only a ghost who visits him on sleepless nights.

The novel spans a quarter of a century—from 1952 to 1977. The plot is based on real events.