In 1954, 25-year-old former Red Army scout Vladimir received a black envelope and stepped into the shadow of the Lubyanka Tower - becoming a KGB agent, beginning an intelligence career that spanned 37 years. From counterintelligence surveillance in the Moscow subway to disguised lurking in the London embassy, from life-and-death deals under the Berlin Wall to the blood and sand of the Afghan battlefield, he personally experienced the most dangerous game of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, and was deeply torn between "loyalty and conscience."
The secret of his father's "CIA undercover", the dilemma of life-saving medicine for his daughter's leukemia, the life and death decision of his wife being held hostage, and Andre - the man who is both an enemy and a friend, always hides an unknown obsession with revenge. He once resisted pressure in a small dark room with a KGB codebook in hand, and fought against CIA traps to protect his family; he witnessed the technical secret war of the "Toshiba Incident", and also experienced the dusk of the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, watching the "KGB" sign be removed and replaced with the new FSB logo.
At a time when the tide of the times was threatening his personal destiny, he went from being an agent riddled with bullets to becoming the owner of a grocery store outside Moscow, using cans of cans and half a bag of potatoes to support his family's new life. The secrets engraved in the files, the marks of the Triangle Organization, and the badges left by Andre eventually became footnotes of the years - it turns out that the greatest "mission" has never been to steal intelligence, but to protect the ones you love and find ordinary warmth in a collapsed world.
Reader comments
What is written here? What a mess! Will this be published without censorship?
Oh my God! So exciting. If it were reality, it would be chilling.
What is written here? What a mess! Will this be published without censorship?
Oh my God! So exciting. If it were reality, it would be chilling.