The daily life of a Soviet intelligence officer unfolds before the reader in all its fullness and nuances: Karl Kolbach (aka Comrade K. K. Krotov) is overloaded with routine work, involved in career intrigues at the place of both services, earns money by all means, and raises a worthy shift in the person of a personal assistant, until a meeting with old colleagues from the Comintern and a series of mystical events interfere with the usual routine...