The new novel by recognized masters of the documentary genre I. B. Linder and N. N. Abin, authors of the sensational bestseller "Riddle for Himmler," which withstood several reprints in a short time, is dedicated to the heroic work of Soviet intelligence officers in the first months of World War II. As part of a special operation, the details of which were thought out at the very top, prisoner Plaksin, who is serving time under a false name in a camp near Arkhangelsk, is urgently transferred to Moscow, and from there to Washington, where he is to meet with a certain influential person.