Something very strange and threatening is happening in Russia! A key American spy disappears without a trace... A mysterious military plane crashes on a remote Arctic base... After the collapse of reforms, the Kremlin leader plans to flee to the West. A British journalist, the lover of a charming Foreign Ministry employee, unwittingly becomes a mediator in a deadly game where betrayal is the law.. . and the outcome can change the fate of the world! The reader is offered in Russian two novels by the English writer - the “star” of the detective-spy genre - Tim Sebastian. A journalist who worked for many years as a correspondent for the BBC in the USSR, in 1985 he was expelled from the country by the KGB “for activities incompatible with his status.” Dynamic, full of intriguing events, telling about the brutal struggle in the highest echelons of power, the novels were written by a man who perfectly knows Soviet reality and the secret side of the constant intelligence war.