About the book: 2008 / 1991. A super-secret laboratory created by the US CIA operates in Turkey under the guise of a tourist center. This laboratory carries out work related to the development of a broad-spectrum psychotropic drug. Its use is comparable to the use of weapons of mass destruction. The leadership of the KGB of the USSR is attempting to destroy a secret facility. But Major Lugovoy’s group from the Vympel detachment of the First Main Directorate of the KGB is ambushed and killed. The country is restless, the August events are coming. The KGB chairman refuses to repeat the operation, and then his assistant, Colonel Klimov, at his own peril and risk, turns to the head of military intelligence, General Korabelov, for help. A group of the secret GRU detachment under the command of Colonel Pavlov is sent to Turkey. Soviet intelligence officers are fulfilling their assigned task. Pursued by the elite Delta unit from the US Army Special Forces, with heavy fighting, Pavlov's group retreats to the state border of the USSR. The officers carried out the given order, but will they get there and will their Motherland, which no longer exists, need them? - that's the question.