Entrepreneur and public figure Alexander Lebedev, in an artistic and journalistic form, recalls his life's path, starting from service in foreign intelligence in London and ending with serving a sentence of compulsory labor in a Tula village following a court verdict for a fight with businessman Sergei Polonsky on the NTV channel .The author reveals to the reader different aspects of the life of the Russian and world political and business elite. He talks about his relationships with leading politicians, businessmen and cultural figures in Russia and abroad, investigates corruption scandals, multi-billion dollar scams and contract killings. Alexander Lebedev comes to the conclusion that humanity is faced with the Third Colonialism, which marks the world domination of an offshore oligarchy that controls tens of trillions of dollars stolen every year in different countries of the world. The author offers a recipe for curing civilization from a financial malignant tumor.