In his new book, the famous journalist and TV presenter Sergei Brilev and his British co-author Bernard O'Connor continue to explore the topic of cooperation between Soviet and British special services during the Second World War. This time we will talk about the events of 1942-1944: the authors invite the reader to go along with them along the routes of "ice pick" agents - the so-called abandoned from Russia through Britain to the rear of the Nazis three dozen Soviet illegal intelligence officers - from the ruins of their special school in the village of Kushnarenkov in the depths of Bashkiria to the SOE airfield in the English county of Bedfordshire, from the machine, for which one of them worked at the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant before the war, before the Nazi death camps Sachsenhuazen and Ravensbrück, where many of them folded their heads. Many unique historical materials are published in the book for the first time. The preface to the book was written by the President of the Russian Council on International Affairs (RIAC), former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998-2004) Igor Sergeevich Ivanov.