The book by the recognized master of the adventure genre Nikita Filatov presents two exciting stories about a secret agent nicknamed Tyson. The novel “The Cuban Option” tells about the bloody hunt for sea pirates off the coast of Southeast Asia and about the battles in Cuba for the redistribution of the world nickel market. In the novel “Arabic Lettering”, secret agent of Russian intelligence Tyson, on instructions from the leadership, collaborates with the CIA and the FBI. Its goal is to identify camps of Arab terrorists using the latest psychotronic technologies to train “martyrs” - suicide bombers. The scout's battlefield becomes West Germany, the USA, Egypt, Central Russia and Transcaucasia.