The novel was published with the assistance of the Federal Security Service of Russia. Irina Degtyareva wrote the novel after carefully studying the archival documents of the FSB. This novel can clarify a lot in the confusing and ambiguous issue of fugitive traitors - former employees of state security agencies. Traitors always end badly. This is an axiom. And no amount of money, fame or preferences makes them happy. Sooner or later retribution comes. General Polyakov, Colonel Penkovsky and many others who traded in the Motherland ended badly. Others who escaped the death sentence served their time and went to the West, but did not benefit at all. They went crazy, drank themselves to death, degenerated and sank to the very bottom... Yuri Dedov also wanted to earn all the money in the world. He worked his way up the career ladder from the position of deputy head of a department at the USSR trade mission in Portugal to the deputy trade representative in Cyprus. For those around him, he was an exemplary family man and a good employee, while step by step he was approaching the edge of the abyss - betrayal of the Motherland. And just like others who took this path, I did not expect that retribution was inevitable...