Memoirs of Kim Philby - a bright, detective story full of British irony by a Soviet intelligence officer. The fundamental choice to serve a just world and fight against fascism, made during his years as a student at Cambridge, set Philby's life on an intricate path. The meeting with the Soviet intelligence officer, the war in Spain, the British Secret Intelligence Service, the work "against Soviet and communist activities" in Great Britain and the coordination of British intelligence with the CIA and the FBI - the brilliant successes of the most famous member of the Cambridge Five caused such deep trauma to the Anglo-American intelligence community, that it affects us right up to the present day.