The stories combined in the collection "Fiery Arc" are dedicated to military intelligence officers, their heroic and necessary work. Nikolai Alexandrovich Asanov has been in print since the late twenties of the last century. As a worker at the Chusovsky Metallurgical Plant in the Urals, he began his career as a newspaper worker. The first poems and essays of the writer appeared in 1927. A sharp plot, deep psychological penetration into the image of a contemporary are characteristic of the writer's stories.