The authors are trying to trace the fate of people who, against their own will, are closely connected with the harsh special services. Among the protagonists of the cycle are Raoul Wallenberg, who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews, the Russian emigrant Konstantin Melnik, who headed French intelligence under de Gaulle, the keeper of the royal galleries, the learned art critic Sir Anthony Blunt and Baroness Maria Budberg-Zakrevskaya.