1927. For several years, Maxim Isaev has been in Shanghai on another assignment to split the White émigré movement from within. After Dzerzhinsky’s death, the young intelligence officer sends eight coded letters to Lubyanka, asking for permission to come to Moscow. The messages remain unanswered. Isaev begins to suspect that they have simply forgotten about him, but at last, after several months, he receives the long-awaited order to wait for new documents needed for leaving China. Could he finally be returning to his homeland and meeting his beloved wife, Sashenka?
While waiting for his departure, Isaev lost sleep, and in the brief moments of forgetfulness he dreams of the upcoming meeting with Sasha. Finally the courier brings the long-awaited envelope with documents and reads the intelligence message received from the Center…
Also don’t miss the audiobooks of the Isaev–Stierlitz series: “Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat,” “The Password Is Not Needed,” “The Spanish Option,” “The Alternative,” “The Third Card,” “Major Wihrr,” “Seventeen Moments of Spring.”