Cold Waters

A novel about wartime—about difficult fates and the dangerous work of unknown heroes who were brought into the elite “Beria’s special forces” unit. September 1942. Novorossiysk is taken by the fascists. The city’s enterprises are evacuated. In the port waters, Soviet engineers secretly sink a prototype of a brand-new torpedo. When the Germans learn about it, they begin an intensive search to set up their own production of this powerful weapon. The task of beating the enemy, finding and destroying the torpedo is assigned to Major Maksim Shelestov’s group. The fighters make their way into the occupied city, hoping to locate the only surviving witness to the sinking. They don’t realize that the secret has another witness…

“This series is good because it presents the correct main idea: in the NKVD under Lavrenty Beria, they knew how to trust people—because the commissar himself knew how to believe in people. The story of Major Shelestov’s group is similar to the real story of a major Abwehr agent, the former staff captain of the Tsarist army, Nelidov, who ended up on Lubyanka in September 1939. Against the background of Nelidov’s story, Maxim Shelestov’s adventures and those of his comrades described in this novel look even more likely.” – S. Kremlov
The total circulation of A. Tamonikov’s books is over 10 million copies.