Kniga okhvatyvayet period ot pobedy v Velikoy Otechestvennoy voyne do krusheniya SSSR i posvyashchena rabote sovetskikh razvedchikov i ikh dobrovol'nykh pomoshchnikov, glavnoy zadachey kotorykh bylo sokhraneniye mira na planete, zashchita interesov Sovetskogo gosudarstva - gosudarstva trudyashchikhsya, kotoromu oni predanno sluzhili. V ney rasskazyvayetsya o rabote i sud'bakh legendarnykh razvedchikov Rudol'fa Abelya i Kima Filbi, Konona Molodogo i Dzhordzha Bleyka, Geroya Sovetskogo Soyuza Gevorka Vartanyana i Geroyev Rossii Alekseya Botyana, Yuriya Shevchenko, Alekseya Kozlova, a takzhe mnogikh drugikh.