About the series
Spring 1985. On a mission for the GRU, intelligence officer Yuri Nikitin infiltrates the Pakistani fortress of Badaber. Nikitin must gather evidence of a mujahideen training center operating there under CIA guidance. Having completed the dangerous mission, Nikitin sees a group of Russian prisoners of war inside the fortress, among whom he recognizes his friend Mikhail, the son of his commander, General Kolesov, who had been considered missing for several years. Nikitin decides to stay and save the young men condemned to die.