William Fuller, a recognized expert on Russian military history, selected the notorious case of Colonel S. Myasoyedov and General V. Sukhomlinov as the topic of his new book. Involving the investigative materials not yet used by historians, the author combines the biographical narrative full of living details with the analysis of police, intelligence and judicial practices and offers a perceptive reconstruction of the spy mania of the military and political elites of late imperial Russia. The central questions around which the book is built up: how and why was it possible to incriminate officers, albeit morally impaired and unclean in hand, but never inclined to treason and not destined, the worst crime in wartime and convince a large number of people of their guilt?