The book details the Caribbean crisis that nearly led the world to World War III. A number of assassination attempts that were prepared by the CIA to physically eliminate Fidel Castro are also being considered. The book was named by the authors according to the code of the operation prepared by the CIA - the landing in Cuba in April 1961 of an armed landing in the Bay of Pigs (Playa Giron Beach) in order to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro.