The Invisible Man's Miscalculation

A novel about wartime—about complex fates and dangerous work by unknown heroes who are included in the ударний (“elite”) composition of “Beria’s special forces.”

1942. In the design bureau of the Gorky aircraft plant, the newest Soviet fighter is being developed. Suddenly, the NKVD learns about a leak of secret information concerning this project. To identify the spy network, a group led by Major Maxim Shelestov is sent to Gorky. To find the “mole,” Shelestov devises an ingenious operation. He himself arrives at the plant as an engineer, while his comrades infiltrate the local environment under the guise of… hardened criminals…

“This series is good because it carries the correct main idea: in Lavrenty Beria’s NKVD they knew how to believe people, because the commissar himself knew how to believe. The story of Major Shelestov’s group resembles the real story of a major Abwehr agent—former штабс-капитан of the Tsarist army Nelydov—who ended up in the Lubyanka in September 1939. Against the backdrop of Nelydov’s story, the adventures of Maxim Shelestov and his comrades described in this novel look all the more likely.” — S. Kremlov

The total print run of A. Tamonikov’s books is more than 10 million copies.