About the book: 2024 / The novel is based on real events. British intelligence MI6, together with the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, developed a brilliant (in their opinion) operation to recruitment of Russian military pilots. Employees of the Ukrainian special services secretly contacted the pilots through social networks and offered them to transport Su-24, Su-34 and Tu-22M3 to Ukrainian territory. As a reward for betrayal, they were promised a couple of million dollars and citizenship of one of the European countries to them and their families. The pilots “gave their consent.” In fact, real professionals from the military counterintelligence of the FSB of Russia entered into a subtle and dangerous game with them. An invisible, unstable and extremely risky confrontation between the strongest intelligence services in the world began... Military writer and journalist Irina Degtyareva, well familiar with the specifics of the work of military counterintelligence, wrote a novel based on real and previously unknown facts about this sensational case, with reliable details demonstrating the subtleties and intricacies game conducted by the FSB.