Pavel Sudoplatov is one of those few intelligence officers who are rightfully called legendary. The range of tasks he performed was extremely wide. Starting from organizing the liquidation of Leon Trotsky, who lived in Mexico, and ending with the imitation of Moscow's interest in separate negotiations with Berlin in the fall of 1941.
Fate decreed that by the time this book was completed, Pavel Sudoplatov, one of the leaders of the independent centers of military and foreign policy intelligence of the Soviet Union, remained the only witness and direct participant in the confrontation between the special services and zigzags in the Kremlin's domestic and foreign policy in the period 1930–1950.
Despite the repressions in the pre- and post-war years, Pavel Sudoplatov, who was imprisoned for 15 years, due to a bizarre combination of circumstances and undoubted luck, managed to survive and record a number of memories related to the controversial and tragic developments of the events of that time.