About the book: 1998 / This is a book about the wonderful Soviet illegal intelligence officer Konon Trofimovich Young. In the West he was known as the prosperous English businessman Gordon Lonsdale. It is believed that his biography formed the basis of the film “Dead Season” and several books, but in fact all this has practically nothing to do with the hard work and tragic fate of the hero of the invisible front. The authors of the book - the son and friend of a scout - have hitherto unpublished materials, including diary entries of Colonel Molodoy himself. Readers are in for unexpected sensations, because the time has come to tell everything as it really happened.