V knige pokazyvayetsya zarozhdeniye i razvitiye sovetskoy pogranichnoy okhrany, yeye boyevaya deyatel'nost' v pervoye desyatiletiye Sovetskoy vlasti, nasyshchennoye slozhnoy, ozhestochennoy bor'boy. Avtor raskryvayet klassovyy kharakter banditskikh vystupleniy, ikh tesnuyu svyaz' s razvedkami kapitalisticheskikh gosudarstv, rasskazyvayet o bor'be pogranichnikov so shpionami, diversantami i drugimi narushitelyami granitsy.