The new book by the famous author Nikolai Luzan occupies a special place in a number of works devoted to the activities of domestic special services. It can rightfully be called an artistic chronicle of glorious military counterintelligence over the past 75 years. At the center of the story are the most significant counterintelligence and intelligence operations of Smersh employees - special departments of the KGB of the USSR and the Department of Military Counterintelligence of the FSB of Russia. The main characters are the leaders and employees who make up the pride of the domestic special services - Colonel General Alexander Bezverkhny, Lieutenant General Ivan Ustinov, Lieutenant General Alexander Matveev and others.