Death in the Rear

War novels about the everyday heroism of Soviet front-line intelligence officers. A clash of strength and will, when only a few steps remain to the enemy’s forward positions. The details of ruthless fighting that sometimes even veterans keep silent about—eyewitnesses to those days.

Autumn 1944. Soviet units are preparing to launch an offensive on the Sandomierz bridgehead. Taking advantage of the lull, an intelligence group gathers information deep within the enemy’s defenses. Returning from another mission, Captain Gleb Shubin finds in the forest the body of a strangled Soviet tanker—right next to the location of a combat unit. For a scout, such a death looks suspicious. At first it seems the cause is a conflict with fellow servicemen. But everyone who could have been involved has an alibi. And then Gleb remembers: not far from the place where the body was found, he had seen two sentries. However, it turns out that no one had posted a watch there. Shubin decides to unravel the mystery himself and enters a dangerous confrontation with an unseen enemy…

The total circulation of the author’s books is over 10 million copies.