The Torn Shore

The most interesting novels about Stalin’s special forces—SMERSH.

1945. During the retreat, the fascists plan to blow up the Latvian port of Ventspils using a powerful charge laid even at the beginning of the war by Soviet sappers. But where exactly it’s installed is unknown to the Germans. To find out, Hitler’s men kidnap our general who once oversaw the mining of the port. Under torture, he reveals the coordinates. Now blowing up the port is a matter of the near future. Preventing the enemy’s plan is assigned to a group of Major SMERSH Alexander Borodin. But how can it be done without enough time and without exact information about the location of the operation? At the last moment, unexpectedly for himself, the major receives help—from the German side.

“Death to spies!” (SMERSH) — this short and ruthless name was given to a special unit of the NKVD that reported directly to I. Stalin. Created during wartime, it consisted of proven-in-combat, honest, and fearless officers of the Red Army. Everyone feared SMERSH—both fascist agents preparing sabotage in our battle formations and the Hitlerites’ accomplices operating in the deep Soviet rear. The enemy knew that if the fighters of Stalin’s special forces were on their trail, a fair and swift verdict was unavoidable.

The novels in the “SMERSH—Stalin’s special forces” series are each time an exciting, dynamic plot and new historical knowledge—an action-packed story written in plain and understandable language.

The total print run of A. Tamonikov’s books is over 10 million copies!