Alexei Aleksandrovich Rostovtsev is a retired colonel who served in Soviet intelligence for a quarter of a century, of which sixteen years served abroad; writer, author of many books and publications, member of the Russian Writers' Union. On the night of August 31 to September 1, 1983, the death of a South Korean Boeing over the Sea of Japan brought the world to the brink of disaster. All Western newspapers shouted about the barbarity of the Russians who shot down a peaceful plane. “For many years, the French plane crash specialist Michel Brun conducted an independent investigation into the circumstances of the incident. The findings turned out to be sensational. I used these conclusions, as well as Brun’s arguments, as the basis for my story. Alexey Rostovtsev.”