The end of the 1930s...Liquidation of the Czechoslovak state and the formation in its place of a springboard for the deployment of Nazi armies near the borders of the Soviet Union; strangulation of the Spanish Republic, the creation in its place of a Francoist station to supply the German-Italian war machine with American military materials, strategic raw materials and petroleum products in the event of a major war; the defeat of Poland - all this inspired the conspirators against the world sitting in the ministerial and banking offices of London, Paris, Washington, New York. A widely known novel by the author of many Soviet bestsellers, which were read by more than one generation of lovers of action-packed literature.