It is generally accepted that the intelligence service of the GDR, which has won fame as one of the best and most effective in the world, owes many of its achievements to its permanent leader, Markus Wolf. This book has been eagerly awaited for a long time in many countries and especially in our country - the closest for the author, not to mention, of course, his native Germany, the country where he grew up and worked, with which he was more closely connected than with anyone else as the chief of the strongest of friendly intelligence services. There is no longer the GDR, but the struggle in which he participated M. Wolf, continues - now against the vindictive “justice of the victors.” The published book is also part of his ongoing struggle, and not memoirs smoothed over by time. Markus Wolf’s sharp, dramatic, truthful, dignified book will take one of the most prominent places in the world literature about intelligence. The son of the famous writer Friedrich Wolf, M. Wolf is fluent in words, his exciting, witty narrative will be interesting to readers of any age and profession.