Her husband, a CIA agent, died during the Lao civil war. Therefore, she had a personal score to settle with the Soviet Communists. The autobiography of Martha Peterson, the first female CIA agent in Moscow, was published in the series" Intelligence Corps".The KGB did not pay attention to her for a long time, because it simply could not imagine that such an important operational work in the CIA could be done by a woman. Her activities in Moscow were directly connected with another legendary spy – Alexander Ogorodnik, who was recruited by the US Central Intelligence Agency under the code name Trigon and eventually became one of the most effective and important spies working for the West. Subsequently, Andropov will give the materials of the Trigon case to the writer Julian Semenov and instruct him to create a novel based on these materials. So the book “TASS is authorized to declare " will appear. Thanks to Peterson's memoirs, we have the opportunity to look at this story from the other side, from the side of the American special services. And at the same time to see life in the USSR of the seventies through the eyes of an American woman. Therefore, the "Widow-spy" is not only an endless search for caches and bookmarks, not only surveillance and every minute danger, not only secret operations and secret negotiations, but also a gray, terrible-style coat bought in the "Birch", too strong cigarettes with a disgusting aftertaste, the best ice cream in the world and the fear that the KGB irradiates the American embassy with microwave waves that can cause cancer in everyone who works in it.