About the book: 2022 / Moscow, 2019. Colonel Oleg Ermilov is once again approached by his old friend, Olesya Merkulova. While preparing materials for a documentary, the ubiquitous journalist discovered interesting nuances in a voice recording of an interview made about a year ago in Syria. This couple of phrases, a small slip that a Syrian Kurd either accidentally or intentionally made during the interview, somehow caught Olesya’s attention, and she decided to work in more detail on the translation of the text, which ultimately led to the global development of the Department of Military Counterintelligence, which helped not only to calculate the actions of the Turks in their next military operation in Syria, but also to think through retaliatory steps both at the intelligence and government levels. Behind-the-scenes conspiracies and negotiations, secret decisions and diplomatic agreements, skillful and methodical work of counterintelligence officers - all this awaits you in Irina Degtyareva’s novel “Syrian Heat”».