The novel sheds light on how life really is—the working routine of foreign spies. It’s an exciting legal thriller: in it, secret information is traded; it’s about who truly rules the state; and about vivid yet at the same time unnoticed individuals on whom the course of our history depends. If you aren’t afraid to touch a state secret and learn closed information about the most highly classified people on our planet, meet—Russia’s best-known lawyer, TV presenter, and writer Pavel Astakhov.
A spy—perhaps the oldest profession of all old professions. People are naturally inclined to peek and eavesdrop. A book about the fact that everyone can become a spy, even if they don’t want to—says Pavel Astakhov. The book’s epigraph is the following: Sometimes it is very hard to tell the exploit of a разведчик (intelligence officer) from the baseness of a spy. The heroes of the work are both the intelligence officer and the spy.