This audiobook is about courage and skill, about an unbending will to win and the ability to overcome the most incredible obstacles. Its author, Keith Gave, is a former American intelligence officer and then for many years a full-time game reviewer for the Detroit Red Wings hockey team at the “Detroit Free Press” newspaper—having a direct role at the very beginning of perestroika in contacts between the home club and leading Russian hockey players, who later became famous as the “Russian Five” and helped the Wings from Detroit to their first Stanley Cup in forty-two years. Sergei Fedorov, Vladimir Konstantinov, Vyacheslav Kozlov, Vyacheslav Fetisov, Igor Larionov—these players became legendary for “Detroit” fans; they forever changed not only their club’s game, but the NHL as a whole, which rarely and unwillingly recruited players from Europe before them.