The Ghost in Uniform

April 1943. During an attack by Soviet intelligence officers on a German staff column, a briefcase containing important Wehrmacht documents disappeared. Who could know where it went — perhaps the German non-commissioned officer who survived that battle and who at the time was recruited by our counterintelligence. The officer’s identifying details are unknown, but reliable information suggests he is in a Gestapo prison suspected of treason. A group led by Major Maxim Shelestov has been ordered to free the German by any means and find out from him where the briefcase is. The men of Shelestov’s group aren’t new to difficult tasks. But this time the matter is complicated by the fact that none of them knows the NCO by face…

“This series is good because it carries the correct main idea: in the NKVD of Lavrenty Beria, they knew how to believe people, because the commissar himself knew how to believe. 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 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 seem even more plausible.”