Colonel of Soviet Intelligence

Aleksei Alexandrovich Rostovtsev is a retired colonel who served in Soviet intelligence for a quarter of a century, sixteen of those years abroad; a writer, author of many books and publications, a member of the Union of Writers of Russia.
Aлександр Ростовцев: “…Counterintelligence and intelligence gave me inexhaustible material for my literary exercises for the rest of my life. In my stories there is the harsh truth of operational work that must be done with clean hands. For reasons of conspiracy, I replaced agents’ nicknames, changed the identifying details of the people involved, and shifted the time and spatial framework of the events. Everything else is true…”