Military adventure blockbuster about the clash of interests of two superpowers - Russia and the USA. The book is based on the story of the loss by the Americans of their reconnaissance satellite, which fell into the territory of one of the African republics. A detachment of Russian special forces led by Major Dmitry Lunin (the hero of the books "Translator" and occasionally in "The Hunt for the Typhoon") is thrown into Africa to search for and evacuate a satellite - for which the fighters will have to go through a lot of various tests.