About the book: 2020 / April 1945. Nazi fanatics desperately defend doomed Berlin. Units of the Red Army are fighting their way to the government quarter, where the leaders of the Reich are hiding in a secret bunker. The SMERSH task force of Major Andrei Rakitin captures a German defector, who reports that, among others, in the bunker there is a high-ranking German intelligence officer, whom our operatives have been hunting for a long time. Rakitin decides, with the help of a recruited defector, to lure an important German out of hiding. The major realizes that his plan is too daring. But there won't be another chance like this…