Black Shadow Underwater

The most interesting novels about Stalin’s special forces—SMERSH. Spring 1944. Captain SMERSH Alexey Khabarov is sent to a small town recently liberated from the Germans, under Narva. In the last few days, the chairman of the executive committee, the head of the militia, and the secretary of the city party committee have all been killed. There’s suspicion that an Abwehr agent network is operating in the town. The local operatives assume that the purpose of the remaining Germans in the city is to save a German submarine stuck somewhere near the coast—with stolen valuables from Peterhof. Khabarov involves Navy counterintelligence in the search for the enemy underground—without knowing that one of them will play a fateful role in his operation… “Death to the spies!” (SMERSH) is the short and merciless name of a special NKVD unit subordinate to I. Stalin. Created during the war, it consisted of tested-in-combat, honest, and fearless officers of the Red Army. Everyone feared SMERSH—both the fascist saboteurs preparing diversions within our battle formations and the Hitler loyalists operating deep in the Soviet rear. The enemy knew: if Stalin’s special-forces fighters had followed his trail, there would be no escaping a swift and fair court. Novels of the SMERSH special forces—Stalin’s special forces series are, each time, an exciting dynamic plot and new historical knowledge: action written in simple, understandable language. The combined circulation of A. Tamonikov’s books is over 10 million copies!