The profession of secret service agent very романтизирована numberless "spy" detectives in the cinema and literature.In the offered book the representative of this workshop tells about another hypostasis of work of secret service agent - in a hot point, in battle conditions, when the basic special job processing is combined with everyday workaday work of commander of platoon of secret service.Certainly, short information is curious about the methods of preparation to to service in secret service (naturally - without surplus details), but main in this book another. An author - penetrating and clever analyst is shows war in Afghanistan with all her complications in the international relations of tribes and various political groupments and with ambiguous attitude toward Russians.