Syrian Heat. The Seal of Secrecy

In the novel 'Syrian Heat', the story begins with a small slip of the tongue made by a Syrian Kurd during an interview with the Russian journalist Olesya Merkulova. However, Olesya deemed it necessary to inform her acquaintance—Colonel Oleg Yermilov, who is the head of a department in the Military Counterintelligence Service of the FSB of Russia. As a result, a large-scale operation begins, conducted jointly by two FSB units—the Department of Military Counterintelligence and the Anti-Terrorism Directorate. The goal is to calculate the actions of the Turks in the next military special operation on the territory of Syria and to devise a response. It concerns defending the interests not only of the Russian counterintelligence but of the entire state.
In the novel 'The Seal of Secrecy', Major Vasily Yegorov, subordinate to Oleg Yermilov, comes to the forefront. Yegorov, having been to Syria and found himself at the epicenter of the great game of intelligence services, craves new adventures, but the routine of a counterintelligence officer is mostly mundane. Wanting to break free from it, Yegorov exhibits excessive vigilance, always searching for something suspicious, which could have been a subject for jokes, but it is precisely this vigilance that helped Yegorov make a surprising discovery during a trip to the market for vegetables. A seemingly ordinary pack of cardboard leads to a microdot left by British intelligence MI6 for its agent in Russia. As a result, serious operational development begins.