A novel about wartime, complicated destinies, and dangerous work by unknown heroes who end up in the special-operations “Beria’s Spetsnaz” unit.
The fascists plan to create their own secret naval bases in Soviet Transpolar regions. If successful, their submarines will become a serious threat to our rear.
A group led by Major Maxim Shelestov is tasked with examining the coastline and studying available information about a possible presence of Germans there. Maxim finds that the fascists really landed in the indicated area and even managed to compile a detailed map of convenient bays and channels.
It is known that they intend to use it soon to penetrate one of the Soviet bases and capture fuel for their submarine. The major decides to meet the “guests” with a deadly surprise…
“This series is good because it conveys the correct main idea: in the NKVD of Lavrenty Beria they knew how to believe people, because the commissar himself knew how to believe them. The story of Major Shelestov’s group resembles the real story of a major Abwehr agent, the former captain of the Tsarist army staff Nelidov, who ended up on Lubyanka in September 1939. And against the background of Nelidov’s story, Maxim Shelestov’s adventures and those of his comrades described in this novel seem even more plausible.” — S. Kremlёv
Total print run of A. Tamonikov’s books: over 10 million copies.