The enemy is very smart and calm. He uses logic, persistence, and precise calculations to achieve his goals. He’s confident he knows how to defeat us in this struggle. But he doesn’t take one important factor into account: he is up against experienced professionals, people of courage, honor, and unshakable will—the Soviet counterintelligence officers.
Pavel Sviridov was considered one of the most promising students at the university. So he wasn’t surprised when agents in civilian clothes took an interest in him. The offer they made thrilled the young man: training at a closed special-services school, followed by an internship in intelligence agencies, and the chance to travel abroad. Pavel already imagined himself as a super-agent—running over rooftops, shooting with both hands, and exposing spies… But in reality, everything turned out far more ordinary and far more dangerous. He realized it when, during his first assignment, he was caught by unknown men who were preparing to inject him with a “truth serum”…