The director of a large Russian company, Alexander Vitkov, mysteriously disappears on the eve of a deal to sell a shipment of weapons to the Republic of Senegal. The Foreign Intelligence Service, concerned about the disruption of an important treaty for Russia, sends its secret agent Nolin to Dakar. While searching for a missing businessman, the agent suddenly notices that he is being monitored very carefully and professionally. It took Nolin a little time to figure out the CIA officers following in his tracks. Does this mean that businessman Vitkov was kidnapped by American intelligence? But it is not in the rules of an experienced agent to make hasty conclusions. Nolin skillfully avoids the American traps and at the same time sets his own “traps.” Suddenly he comes to a shocking discovery: a third force is taking part in the game, familiar to the Russian intelligence officer, one might say, painfully...