Mikhail Vdovin, an experienced intelligence officer, works under the cover of the Soviet embassy in one of the NATO countries, and there CIA officer Richard Palmer tries to recruit him. As a result of an operational game, Soviet intelligence manages to obtain a document compromising the American president and neutralize US interference in a major foreign policy action of the USSR... The author served for 30 years in the Soviet state security agencies, including more than 20 years in foreign intelligence. Unable to use documentary materials for reasons of secrecy, the author chose the “memoir novel” genre. Based in his work on real events and facts, he changed the names of the characters, the time and place of action.