Storm Landing

A novel about the war years—about difficult human destinies and risky service of unnamed fighters who were included in an ударна group known as “Beria’s special forces.”

Spring of 1945. Soviet command learns that at one of the factories in Pomerania the Germans plan to ship secret drawings and equipment for manufacturing the newest self-guided aerial bomb. A special group under Lieutenant Colonel Maksim Shelestov receives an order to obtain the documentation and transfer it to our territory. Together with the paratroopers, the unit is sent behind enemy lines on two gliders. But a sudden storm and barrage fire ruin the plan: the tug aircraft is damaged and releases the gliders prematurely. Shelestov has only a few dozen minutes left—while the unpowered gliders are still in the air, he has to completely rework the flight plan on the go…

“The strong point of this series is the precisely executed main idea: in Lavrentiy Beria’s NKVD they knew how to trust people, because the commissar himself knew how to trust. The story of Major Shelestov’s group echoes the real fate of a major Abwehr agent—former штабс-капітан of the tsarist army Nelidov, who ended up on Lubyanka in September 1939. Against the backdrop of Nelidov’s story, the adventures of Maksim Shelestov and his comrades described in the novel look especially plausible.” — S. Kremlëv

The total print run of A. Tamonikov’s books exceeds 10 million copies.