V svoyey knige Igor' Simbirtsev proslezhivayet istoriyu sovetskikh spetssluzhb perioda, kotoryy ulozhilsya mezhdu dvumya voynami: Grazhdanskoy i Velikoy Otechestvennoy. Avtor otkryvayet maloizvestnyye detali nashumevshikh operatsiy etogo vremeni, obnazhaya mekhanizm "sozdaniya" novykh antisovetskikh organizatsiy: "Sindikat-2" i "Trest" i t. d.