Night Killer

A military-time novel about complicated destinies and dangerous work of unknown heroes who get assigned to “Beria’s special forces.” Late 1944. Representatives of the anti-Hitler coalition gather for the Fourth Moscow Conference to discuss the future arrangement of the world.

At the same time, this is a good opportunity to “test the ground,” find out the intentions of allies, and obtain other people’s secrets. To prevent a leak of information, a group led by Lieutenant Colonel Maxim Shelestov is sent to the meeting of heads of state. But its arrival is spoiled by an unexpected incident.

Right in the center of Moscow, one of Shelestov’s subordinates, Viktor Butorin, witnesses the murder of an unknown citizen. Butorin also saw the fleeing criminal. Our agents didn’t yet know that it was exactly this person who would end up confronting them in the conference corridors, under very strange circumstances…

“This series is good because it carries the correct main idea: in the NKVD of 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, formerly a staff-captain of the Tsarist army, Nelydov, who ended up on Lubyanka in September 1939. Against the background of Nelydov’s story, Maxim Shelestov’s adventures and those of his comrades described in this novel look even more plausible.” — S. Kremlëv

The total circulation of A. Tamonikov’s books is over 10 million copies.