Leonid Mlechin's book tells about the secret missions of Yevgeny Primakov in the Middle East. These are meetings with the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Georges Habash, who became famous for high-profile terrorist attacks, and mediation between the leader of the Kurds Mustafa Barzani and the Iraqi government, and his unofficial visits to Israel after the severance of diplomatic relations between the USSR and this country, and the preparation of negotiations between Syria and Iraq, between Egypt and Israel.