Famous international journalist, writer, and screenwriter Yulian Semyonov wrote a popular novel in a fast-paced, action-packed genre. His books are detective stories with an intriguing plot and real characters that were adapted for film and became part of the “golden fund” of Soviet cinema. In the novel, a decapitated corpse is found in the outskirts of a northern city, and Colonel Vladislav Kostenko manages to figure out that behind the name of the fallen soldier is someone else. The author’s novels have been translated into many languages and are regularly published in large print runs in different countries.