The novelette's protagonist is Boris Zinaiev a US citizen that was born in Russia and emigrated with his parents at the age of 7 years. He is a CIA agent and served under a diplomatic cover in various U.S. embassies abroad. He is ordered to fly to Moscow as a secret agent in a mission in which his part is to distract the other side attention. He spends two weeks there and on the eve of his return he meets unexpectedly two FSP agents that introduce themselves as Ivan and Vera, during this encounter Boris realizes that his true identity has been exposed; and he is threatened indirectly by the two FSB agents that expect him to serve the Russian intelligence services. The short stories assembled in this book are dedicated to tales and adventures in the realm of intelligence and espionage. The protagonists depicted in these short stories are secret agents, operators, and various anonymous figures behind the scenes that influence the lives of my short stories protagonists.