The Illegal Resident: The Search

The second part of the book about service in illegal intelligence. This part is sometimes more combat-focused, but at the same time more boring—meaning with details. In it, I’ll tell how I became a real illegal intelligence officer. How I moved from the “sleeper” status into the combat roster of the boldest and most active unit of our General Staff’s strategic foreign illegal military intelligence.

About how routine turns into a plan, so that the plan can grow into an operation scheme. This part will also explain a bit how the term “search,” known throughout tactical (unit-level) military intelligence, works in strategic foreign illegal intelligence. The book is based on very real events; all names and important details have been changed beyond recognition for understandable reasons. But much of it is almost documentary—especially the events, reflections, and combat episodes.

Contains profanity.