The world is small, and such seemingly incomparable things as a nuclear bomb, weather forecasts and a horse that promises to become the favorite of the current season are tightly intertwined in it. Perry Stewart, a physicist by training, a weather forecaster by profession and a secret agent at heart, finds himself participating in a chain of mysterious events connected with the first, second, and third. It all started as a joke: two friends, one of whom was an amateur pilot, dreamed of flying through the “eye” of the storm - the center of a tropical hurricane.