Gorlov tupik - Dashkova, Polina Viktorovna.

He lost everything: an officer's rank, a high position, a salary, a separate apartment. The case he was conducting fell apart. The defendants have been released and declared innocent. But he's not going to give up. He has kept faith in himself and in his special mission. He begins life anew, builds a brilliant career, gets influential acquaintances. KGB generals and employees of the International Division of the Central Committee consider him their own, useful, reliable, and do not suspect that he uses them in a complex special operation, which for many years develops alone. He will prove the existence of an enemy conspiracy and the guilt of former defendants. No one knows about his secret plans. No one's trying to stop him. No one but a nineteen-year-old girl, an orphan from a dirty communal apartment in Gorlov cul-de-sac. But she's been gone for a long time. She is just a ghost who is to him sleepless nights.
The novel spans a quarter of a century, from 1952 to 1977. The plot is based on real events.