The hero of the book, Peter Chancellor, a young scientist and writer, publishes best-selling novels one after another, exposing the political background of the major events of the twentieth century. Peter is full of new ideas and is about to start working on a new work, but at this time an attempt is made on his life, during which his fiancee dies. Peter decides to find the criminals, not suspecting what chain of incredibly intense, complex and deadly events for him will lead to. will lead to the investigation he has begun, as a result of which he will be on the trail of a powerful secret organization engaged in blackmail and political assassinations.