About the book: 2021 / Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich Kakinsky is a journalist and prose writer, author of historical novels, member of the Union of Writers of Russia. The “Agasphere” series of books are five fascinating retro-espionage detective stories dedicated to the work of counterintelligence in Russia at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. The main character is Mikhail Berg, known to fans of the genre from the novel “The Ambassador”. A former brilliant officer became crippled and was wanted because he stood up for his friend, the Japanese ambassador. Berg hid for a long time within the walls of the monastery. And now he finally finds something to do: he becomes at the origins of Russian counterintelligence and, with a team of like-minded people, counters the agents of Western countries and Japan. In the third book of the series, we are treated to a continuation of the story of Agasfer, who was previously sent to Sakhalin. The Russo-Japanese War began. At the same time, another war is breaking out, invisible to the uninitiated. They are trying to oust Lavrov’s intelligence unit from the “battlefield”; The surveillance agents notice that someone is watching them. We urgently need to regain control of the situation and figure out where the strangers are and where our own are..