About the book: 2018 / This book is about courage and skill, about the unbending will to win and the ability to overcome the most incredible obstacles. Its author, Keith Gave, is a former American intelligence officer, and then a long-term staff columnist for the games of the Red Wings hockey team in the Detroit Free Press newspaper, who was directly related at the very beginning of perestroika to the contacts of his native club with leading Russian hockey players who later became famous as the Russian Five and led the Wings from Detroit to their first Stanley Cup in forty-two years. Sergei Fedorov, Vladimir Konstantinov, Vyacheslav Kozlov, Vyacheslav Fetisov, Igor Larionov - these players became legendary for Detroit fans, they forever changed the game not only of their club, but also of the NHL as a whole, which before their appearance rarely and reluctantly recruited players from Europe.