Major Vasily Yegorov is an officer of the Department of Military Counterintelligence of the FSB, worn down by endless daily routine paperwork, yet he hasn’t lost hope of taking part in a real counterintelligence operation. At times showing excessive vigilance and attention to details, Yegorov—during an ordinary trip to the market—unexpectedly discovered a new method of passing secret information to the British intelligence service MI6. A serious operational development began, complicated by the fact that there was absolutely no data pointing to a traitor selling defense secrets.
But Major Yegorov and Colonel Oleg Ermilov are not the kind who give up—they plunged headfirst into an operation to find the criminal.