About the book: 2002 / Biography of the largest Soviet intelligence officer of the twentieth century, German by nationality Ruth Werner, born Ursula Kuczynski, by husbands Hamburger and Burton. GRU colonel and famous writer, radio operator and resident - Ruth Werner, aka "Sonya", began her espionage career under the leadership of Richard Sorge in China. On the eve of World War II, she created an intelligence network in Switzerland (“Red Chapel”) and played an important role in the theft of the secrets of the atomic bomb. And this is only part of her combat journey. The book uses material from the GRU archive (co-author - Colonel V.V. Bochkarev - GRU veteran, chairman of the GRU strategic intelligence section, chairman of the GRU veteran section personally met with her in the USSR and in Germany). Calculated for a wide range of readers.