After graduating from school in the summer of 1940, Nikolai Khokhlov dreamed of being an actor and 'making a movie'. And began to move towards achieving this goal. A year later, his life changed radically. He continued to act, portraying enemies of the Soviet government, German officers and foreigners. Only the slightest mistake could cost him his life. And he directed not films or plays, but the murders of enemies of the USSR, taking an active part in his 'productions'…In September 1941, he was recruited by employees of the 2nd department of the NKVD, headed by Pavel Sudoplatov, and became one of the liquidators from Lubyanka. And in 1954, Nikolai Khokhlov fled to the West. In the USSR, he was sentenced to death in absentia.In 1957, he was poisoned, presumably with the help of a radioactive isotope - thallium or polonium, but survived after several weeks spent in the hospital. According to Khokhlov, this was not the only attempt to poison the KGB of the USSR.In his memoirs, he spoke in detail and frankly about his service in the NKVD-MGB-KGB and why he decided to leave the stage of the theater of the secret war, where he was a "star".