“Mr. Second Lieutenant! You are among the very few graduates of cadet schools who will learn a completely new profession for the army,” this is how the extraordinary fate of Dmitry Platonovich Bekeshev began. one of the first Russian intelligence saboteurs. “Your job will be to destroy everything that poses a threat to the Russian army,” this instruction took place several years before the outbreak of the First World War. So what is next. Sabotage school, front, “war without rules” in the German rear, captivity, meeting the future Marshal Tukhachevsky, escape. Roman Solodov’s hero with honor withstands all the incredible tests that fate sends him, but the era of revolutionary changes is approaching, which will be even more difficult to survive …