Such people are rarely talked about, but they are remembered for a long time. Their fate is mysterious, and their biographies are hidden in the archives. Their “labor exploits” are almost unknown, but many people know about their failures and defeats... They are foreign intelligence officers... Probably everyone in our country has seen the wonderful film “Dead Season”. Many, apparently, asked themselves the question: “Did the main character, brilliantly played by Donatas Banionis, have a prototype, or, as in many other films, is this some kind of abstract “collective image of a Soviet intelligence officer”? No, the main character of the film had a prototype. His name is Konon Trofimovich Young. This book is about him... This personality is, without exaggeration, legendary. He lived an amazing life, containing events that would be enough for several lifetimes. At the top of his professional career, he is a Soviet resident in England and at the same time a successful businessman, Sir Longsdale, who earned millions of pounds in the slot machine business, receiving the title of Sir from the Queen of Britain for his success in the most real capitalist business. A man of tragic fate, who went through a noisy failure, arrest and prison, returned to his homeland as a result of an exchange. A man whose name, like the names of Abel, Sorge and some others, has become synonymous with the success of our special services - all this is Konon Trofimovich Molodyi. Written by Valery Agranovsky in the 70s, the story is a successful example of a combination of graceful and deep, tragic and funny, serious and ironic, like the life of an intelligence officer - real and virtual at the same time. The book includes an afterword, “Truth Detector,” written by the author quite recently. It reveals some secrets related to the work on the story “Profession: Foreigner”. In today's Russia, this book is more relevant than ever.