Seventeenth book of the Sea Wolf cycle. Having survived the war, you begin to appreciate every day of rest in a special way. After the Victory (which took place here in the forty-fourth, and not forty-fifth), a decade passed soon. The Soviet Union here came out of the war much stronger than in another version of history - parallel or perpendicular, comrades scientists admitted to the Secret cannot come to an agreement. And the fact that in "this Universe" not half but two-thirds of Europe, including all of Germany, as well as Italy, Greece and half of Norway, went to the Soviet camp, and that the USSR was the first in the world to build nuclear submarines from fifty-first - in itself does not exclude the curse of "perestroika," decay and decay of the elite. And let the traitors be called not Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin - does it matter? That is why I am terribly afraid not to have time - to do everything so that treason, supported by the indifference of the masses, becomes impossible in this world.