He is a man whose profession is risk. He is his own among strangers, a stranger among his own. All his life he lives “under a legend.” He lives in danger and in lies. He is the person who has reached the highest heights in the difficult art of foreign intelligence. A master spy who carries out the hardest assignments. He is a man whose every day is an intricate game with death. But he plays all the way to the winning end…
This novel features many real figures—leaders of Soviet intelligence and agents on both sides. For the first time, the novel tells the true circumstances of the escape of “a super-spy” from the English intelligence service, Oleg Gordievsky; the arrest of Ronald Pelton; and the treachery of Vitaly Yurchenko. For the first time, it also tells about the reasons for the sensationally successful meeting between Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev.