Squealing tires, machine gun fire, grenade explosions... Ted Mundy runs up the stairs, leaving bloody trails behind him... A loser and the son of a loser in ordinary life, in his second incarnation he was a successful intelligence officer. But a spy is always alone. And a double agent is doubly lonely. Even if there is an old friend nearby who has drawn him into a dangerous game. They are both just pawns in the confrontation between the West and the East, and the collapse of all types of ideology turned out to be mortally dangerous not only for states, but also for individuals. In addition, for a double spy you can always find a triple one... For the first time in Russian - a new novel by the famous master of the spy thriller!