The path to success is rarely paved with flowers... And the most beautiful of them, as everyone knows, are not without thorns. Fate loves to present its own, sometimes completely unpredictable surprises and set traps where you don’t expect them at all. So Mamba skidded on her next turn! Brought to the USSR! In short, a book about what it’s like to be a cormorant among seagulls or a black cadet in the country of the Soviets! And not only that: reality here is closely intertwined with fiction, and the flight of the author’s imagination with history. The action takes place in the USSR, where Mamba arrives as a military school cadet on assignment from Ethiopia. Set in 1980.