The main character of Nikolai Geronin’s novel “Wolf Race,” operative Yuri Verigin, operates very successfully in Japan as an undercover intelligence officer. He masterfully avoids surveillance and delicately enters into contacts with agents. Verigin is rightfully considered the star of the Tokyo station. The management entrusts him with the most difficult and dangerous tasks. Service in intelligence is a calling for Yuri, his life’s work. He views this activity as the highest manifestation of service to the Fatherland. For him there is no more important and responsible mission than to defend the interests of his country. And intelligence provides him with this chance, giving him the opportunity, under extreme conditions, to obtain the most valuable secret information for the sake of ensuring the security of the Motherland. But not everything depends personally on Yuri Verigin. Unforeseen, force majeure circumstances interfere with the fate of this persistent, selfless person, who put the fulfillment of his professional duty above personal interests.