Stronger Than Love: The Island

In August, Egorova is checked by the NKVD for reliability. Gurov and Lukyanchenko vouch for her. After sending her brother and son with their aunt to evacuation in the farthest lands, Egorova returns to service. The Germans develop an operation codenamed “Brazil” to seize the island of Sukho in order to cut off the Roads of Life. Elena Egorova and Pavel Borisov meet on the island of Sukho. Egorova is sent to an guards unit, and Borisov—to set up defensive fortifications. Borisov regards the girl with suspicion: she had an affair with a traitor. And Egorova avoids a gray-haired young man with a disfigured face. Counterintelligence intercepts a coded message from which it becomes clear that a deeply undercover agent of the Abwehr is operating on the island of Sukho…