Black Blood of the Sea

The author’s total book circulation exceeds 6 million copies.

A terrorist group takes over an Iranian oil platform in the Caspian Sea. Among the hostages is a team of Russian engineers who came for scientific consultations and to work together with Iranian specialists. The militants issue an ultimatum: release their accomplices from prisons, otherwise the captives will face ruthless execution. Iran turns to Russian GRU special forces for support. A team from Major Nikolay Karzhavin is secretly deployed to the facility. But how can he, without alerting the bandits, figure out exactly where they are holding the peaceful people? Karzhavin makes a risky move and, for a time, changes the appearance of the Russian special forces officer…

Real heroes in real circumstances— for true readers. Mountain passes, ambushes, and hard clashes with the bandits—this is the powder-filled atmosphere of these action-packed thrillers.

“War has many faces. And the one who writes about it truthfully has Sergey Zverev’s face. This author knows everything about combat operations. It seems he himself went through those harsh trails only so that, without embellishment, he could tell about those who stubbornly continue to walk them…” — Valeriy SHARAPOV, author of retro detective novels