The setting of the book is Africa. Here, for a long time, the interests of two superpowers, the USSR and the USA, collided. Anatoly Adamishin, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR in 1986–1989, talks about the events that he witnessed and participated in with scientific accuracy and at the same time lively and exciting. The book is also interesting for its analysis of the changes that occurred in Soviet foreign policy during the period of perestroika, and its attempt to formulate a methodology for approaching the peaceful resolution of complex international problems.