Special War

The roar of trains plunging off the tracks, blown bridges, and burning German supply wagons. Novels about partisan warfare and nameless heroes who fought behind enemy lines.

Captain Romanchuk’s detachment is tasked with destroying a railway bridge that supplies units of the German army. Zoya Luneva is confident she can handle even the most risky assignment, and, secretly from her commanding officer, decides to carry out the sabotage alone. In the village, she meets Maryana Dubkovich—her father, a railway worker, is seriously ill. Zoya promises to obtain medicine, hoping thereby to win the station worker over. But instead of gratitude, Dubkovich the elder rudely throws her out. Luneva cannot understand why—until at that very moment a German patrol appears at the house…

«War has many faces. And he who writes about it truthfully has Sergei Zverev’s face. This author knows everything about combat operations. It seems he walked those harsh paths himself only to tell about them without embellishment…» – Valeriy SHARAPOV, author of retro detective novels