In 2008, Russian citizen and businessman Viktor Bout was arrested by the US special services as a result of a dummy operation carried out on three continents and completed in Thailand. Booth was charged with conspiracy against America. During Viktor's two years in a Thai prison, his fate was decided as part of an intense diplomatic struggle between Russia and the United States. After Booth was extradited to New York in 2010, he was kept in solitary confinement, subjected to psychological torture, persuaded to cooperate with the American special services and demanded dirt on Russian politicians. The refusal to betray his comrades and the Motherland turned into a sentence for Victor to 25 years in prison, which he is still serving in the United States. Newly analyzed facts of the true reasons for the US hunt for V. Booth, interviews with him, his relatives and acquaintances, unique photographs from the family archive, Victor's letters from prison and fragments of his wife Alla's diaries formed the basis of a journalistic investigation of this high-profile case, which became a major international scandal.