In the web of madness

… The life of a young Soviet psychiatrist Irina Krasilnikova changes dramatically when, after graduating from the institute, she is assigned to the SPL - a closed special psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of a small Ural village. Instead of the expected noble work of treating people, it is becoming just another cog in the ruthless system of punitive psychiatry, the victims of which are both dissidents and famous scientists. And even more so, she could not expect to be at the epicenter of the intense struggle of the world's most powerful intelligence services ...

Meanwhile, the arms race between the Soviet Union and the United States is gaining momentum. The Soviet side intends to equip its anti-missiles with a powerful nuclear warhead, which threatens not only the enemy but also the civilian population of the country. The secret development of a supernova thermonuclear missile cannot prevent even the disarmament talks between the superpowers ... Leading military engineer Colonel Oleksiy Golubov is trying to stop the deadly race by daring to go against his own country. But will he be able to contact US intelligence while in prison in the far Urals, and will a CIA officer be able to reach him through a system of psychiatric camps? Where is the line between common sense and madness, conscience and patriotism, legend and sincerity? Can a professional spy afford real human feelings, and what price will he have to pay for such weakness? What is true in a country that lives in the shackles of hypocritical ideology? The heroes of the book seek answers to these questions through feats and betrayals, courageous deeds and sometimes irreparable mistakes, trying to make the best possible of all possible probabilities, and not noticing how inescapable probability their own real life becomes…