About the book: 2023 / A new book by a famous author is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the creation of the domestic foreign intelligence service INO - PGU - SVR. Its main feature: new, newly discovered heroes, mostly illegal intelligence officers. The author knew some of them, as well as their wives and military companions personally. You will meet the Hero of the Soviet Union Mikhail Vasenkov, who went into intelligence in the second half of the 1970s, the Heroes of Russia Yuri Shevchenko and Vitaly Netyksa and several other outstanding intelligence officers, whose exploits literally until the last months were classified as “Top Secret”, you will learn the name the first post-war Hero of the Soviet Union among intelligence officers. Especially for this book, the personal file of the great Kim Philby and the most important documents he obtained were partially declassified. You will be introduced to a mysterious illegal immigrant from Berlin, working under the operational pseudonym “Topaz”, about whom the famous General Markus Wolf (and he is present in this book) said that his real name would never be made public, and the author provides the most frank confession of this fantastic intelligence officer . In Scotland, the author communicated with the prototype of James Bond - Sir Fitzroy Maclean, who, under the cover of a diplomat, worked in Moscow back in the 1930s and ended his successful career in the 1990s.