The book includes two stories by the famous master of action-packed detective Roman Nikolaevich Kim. The first - "Special Purpose Agent" - is devoted to the investigation of the mysterious murder of a large Chinese businessman associated with an expedition to search for the mythical Pocketmen, micropygmies, who, according to the testimony of travelers, live in the mountains of Southern China. The second - “Ghost School” - is built as several reports of a person who is undergoing training in one of the spy schools organized by foreign intelligence services in Africa in order to train agents for further committing bloody and dirty deeds against freedom-loving peoples and states.