Indoda yeendaba ukuba uVicente Vallés ngababukeli abaninzi, ifika kunye neveli enokuthi iboniswe njengebali langoku elipheleleyo eliza kuqala ngalo isihloko seendaba zeendaba emsebenzini. Kungenxa yokuba le nto imalunga neRussia kunye nemfazwe ebandayo ekhoyo namhlanje kumacala omabini amakhethini entsimbi abonakala ewa kwinqanaba lehlabathi lanamhlanje. Njengesicwangciso esimnyama esivela kwinoveli ethile Le Carre.
Ngo-1922, ukuzalwa komntwana eNew York kuya kutshintsha imbali yehlabathi kwinkulungwane kamva. Uyilo lweenkonzo zobuntlola zaseSoviet kulo mntwana esona sicwangciso sobuntlola sakha sacinga. Kwiminyaka embalwa kamva, uLavrenti Beria, umphathi wamapolisa wamaBolshevik anegazi, uya kuthi thaca esi sicwangciso kuStalin, oza kuthatha olu tyando aze alujike lube ngumsebenzi wobuqu kunye noyimfihlo kakhulu, elumkisa umenzi wakhe wento ebaluleke kakhulu: ayikwazi ukuphuma esandleni. Iya kuba yi Ukusebenza Kazan.
Akukho namnye uBeria okanye uStalin oza kuphila ukuze abone ukuba laa nkwenkwana yazalwa kumashumi amabini eminyaka eyadlulayo eNew York, kwaye ethe yaba yintlola, igqibezela iprojekthi yakhe yamabhongo, ihleli amashumi eminyaka.
Sele kwimihla yethu, ukunyuka kwamandla eMoscow kwearhente ye-KGB enganelisekiyo nengakhathaliyo iya kuphinda iqalise i-Operation Kazan, ukonakalisa iNtshona kwaye ibuyisele iRussia kwimeko yamandla amakhulu. Kodwa ngaba iya kuphumelela? Ngaba inkokeli yaseRashiya iya kuyifezekisa injongo yayo yokwenyani yokulawula iUnited States ukusuka kwiKremlin? Ngaba umyalelo kaStalin uya kwenziwa okanye uya kuphuma esandleni?
Abalinganiswa be-Operation Kazan bahamba besuka kwiNguqulelo yaseRashiya ngo-1917 ukuya kunyulo lwaseMelika lwenkulungwane yama-1989, bedlula kwizinto ezoyikekayo zeMfazwe yesibini yeHlabathi, ukuhla kweNormandy, iMfazwe ebandayo, ukuwa koDonga lwaseBerlin ngo-90, ukuwa. yolawulo lwamakomanisi ngeminyaka yoo-XNUMX kunye nongenelelo lwangoku lwaseRashiya kwiidemokhrasi zaseNtshona. Yeyiphi indima eza kudlalwa ziintlola eziselula uTeresa Fuentes, osuka kwiCNI yaseSpain, kunye noPablo Perkins, osuka kwiCIA, kwisigaba sokugqibela sobu buqhophololo?
Ngoku ungathenga inoveli ethi “Operación Kazán”, nguVicente Vallés apha:
