A powerful explosion shook a hotel building in Israel’s capital, where a meeting of the world’s biggest diamond magnates was taking place. But this tragedy, which claimed many lives, was the result of a super-secret operation set in motion as far back as the early 1950s by Beria’s henchmen. The action of the new novel unfolds in Germany, France, England, Russia, and Israel, where an anti-terror team—“Level Five,” created on the initiative of the presidents of Russia and the United States—operates actively. One of its leaders is “an important figure” from Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office, A.B. Turetsky.