A novel set during wartime—about complex fates and dangerous work of unknown heroes who were included in the strike team of “Beria’s special forces.”
Still in the dungeons of Lubyanka, Major Maxim Shelestov knew that justice would prevail. But he couldn’t have predicted the turn of fate that followed him next. People’s Commissar Beria personally offered him to lead a special unit of special purpose. Shelestov agrees: serving the Motherland is his sacred duty.
The group is tasked with crossing the border in the area of the Western Bug and infiltrating the positions of the Wehrmacht units. Somewhere there is the head of the spy network operating in the border area. They reach the place safely. But then the unexpected begins...
June 1941...