About the book: 2019 / The plot of this book is incredible. We can safely say that the events that will be discussed are unique; nothing like this has happened, perhaps, in the entire history of Anglo-Russian relations since the times of Ivan the Terrible and Elizabeth I. The incredible history of cooperation between the intelligence services of the USSR and Great Britain is recreated by Sergei Brilev and Bernard O'Connor based on previously classified materials from archives, both British and Soviet. In this book there was a place for heroism, tragedy and, we hope, a good joke. But it differs favorably from everything that has been directly or indirectly published about the heroes of the unknown war so far in that it is based on the study of the personal files of illegal intelligence officers. It was the fate of people that became the focus of attention of the authors. Their names are not known to the general public, and specialists in the history of intelligence still have a lot to learn about their fate. One of the most unusual stories is connected with Pastor Kruyt, who became the prototype of the famous Pastor Schlag from the film “Seventeen Moments of Spring”».