The Secret city of Chelyabinsk is the most radioactive city on earth. Here the Soviet Union manufactures its nuclear weapons. Here salamanders glow.After graduating first in his class GRU’s Military-Diplomatic Academy, GRU officer Mikhail Khalatsyn is sent to Chelyabinsk to investigate a charge of treason against a Russian scientist. Mikhail finds his first assignment both distasteful and humiliating. Both he and the scientist are Afro-Russians. Mikhail’s father left America’s Jim Crow South in 1933 and immigrated to the Soviet Union.Is the scientist truly a traitor or just another black man being set up to take the fall?It’s up to Mikhail find out.