Intelligence and the Kremlin. Memoirs of a Dangerous Witness

Pavel Sudoplatov is one of the few intelligence officers who rightfully deserves to be called legendary.
The range of tasks he accomplished was extraordinarily wide. From organizing the assassination of Leon Trotsky, who was living in Mexico, to simulating Moscow's interest in separate negotiations with Berlin in the fall of 1941.
Fate arranged it so that by the time this book was finished, Pavel Sudoplatov, one of the leaders of the independent centers of military and foreign intelligence of the Soviet Union, remained the only witness and direct participant in the struggle of special services and the zigzags of Kremlin's internal and foreign policy during the period of 1930–1950.

Despite the repressions in the pre-war and post-war years, Pavel Sudoplatov, who was imprisoned for 15 years, through a strange turn of events and undeniable luck, managed to survive and record a number of memories related to the contradictory and tragic development of events of that time.