Carrying out a combat assignment cut my life short. My long and eventful service as a special forces officer—full of ups and downs—has come to an end. However, fate decided otherwise and gave me a second chance.
USSR, winter 1989. The Soviet Union is firmly standing on its feet, and the collapse has been prevented. But the last operation in Pakistan turned out to be dirty—our intelligence officers left a lot of mess behind, which created its own problems. Gromov receives a new rank, but along with it he is stripped of command of Spektr and sent far to the North…