About the book: 2020 / 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 finally he finds a job: 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 second book, the threat of trial in a case twenty years ago hangs over Agasfer, so the leadership wisely sends him to Irkutsk, and shortly before the inevitable During the war with Japan, a Russian agent receives an order to move to Sakhalin. Here Berg will not only have to hide from his enemies, but also enter into a fight with the true owner of the island, Sonya the Golden Hand. Hard labor turned a once elegant swindler into a ruthless killer…