There are no former intelligence officers. Retired KGB Colonel Timur Karaev became convinced of this when he was invited to the secret organization “Shield and Sword”. The purpose of the organization is to search for and eliminate traitors who betrayed Russian state secrets to foreign intelligence services. The task that Karaev was assigned was a real blow. It turned out that his recently deceased friend and colleague in the police, Pavel Sleptsov, was a traitor. This is an irrefutable fact. Now Timur has to find his deeply hidden contact Sleptsov. Nothing is known about this person except his operational pseudonym - Woodcutter...