The book contains many previously unknown facts of recent history. Confidential negotiations between Alexei Adzhubey and Pope John XXIII, the secret cuisine of the Sicilian mafia, the conclusion of the "deal of the century" between the Fiat concern and the Soviet Union - this is the first time that a direct participant in the events, a foreign intelligence officer Leonid Kolosov, tells about this. The reader will also find sensational confessions of the author that he met with Otto Skorzeny, almost became an accomplice in the assassination attempt on the Spanish dictator Franco, was authorized to convince Alexander Galich and Viktor Nekrasov to return to their homeland.