About the book: 1998 / The hero of the Ivins' novel "Revelations of a Secret Agent" Golovin saw our intelligence from the inside - first through the eyes of a young translator, and then through an experienced intelligence officer .The action begins in the “years of stagnation”, and Golovin knows firsthand about such controversial but colorful figures as Galina Brezhneva, Nikita Khrushchev, Yasser Arafat, Alexey Kosygin... All of them were friends with the hero-author, and some were even very close ... But in addition to the exciting detective action, which begins in provincial Chisinau, and then continues in Belgium, France, Egypt and, of course, in the secret offices of Moscow, there is also the truth about the activities of our intelligence officers. The Ivins’ novel is extremely frank - from a description of the mechanism for transferring bribes “upstream” and external surveillance to very vivid erotic scenes…