About the book: 2004 / A special group of military intelligence officers is tasked with finding weapons of mass destruction on the planet Irene at all costs in order to justify the preventive peacekeeping action being carried out by the United Nations government against one of its colonies. The true reasons for the small victorious war are known, perhaps, only to the president and the secretary of state. And Major Firsov and his people can only look for missiles. Even if they don’t exist and never have existed. But doing your job too well means looking for trouble on your own... head. What the scouts find turns out to be more dangerous than the most modern weapons...