The Tashkent Eclipse

A novel about the intense work of specialists from a unique KGB unit. From a brainstorming session while preparing a secret operation to a real clash with a crafty enemy anywhere on earth—this path is possible only for brave and devoted professionals. Late 60s. Western intelligence services are preparing a provocation on the territory of the Uzbek SSR. According to their plan, a group of saboteurs is to organize mass anti-Soviet riots during a football match at Tashkent’s central stadium, and then blow up several important capital facilities. This will serve as the signal to begin a state coup in the republic. Learning about the planned action, the KGB leadership sends a special forces team “Don” under the command of Major Vyacheslav Bogdanov to Uzbekistan. The operatives manage to capture one of the agents. He names the exact time and targets of the sabotage, as well as the address of a clandestine apartment. But the operatives find only part of the sabotage group there. The rest have already gone on the assignment. Bogdanov understands: to prevent a tragedy, he has only a few hours left…

“Novels by A. Tamonnikov are about real men, for whom the notions of valor, honor, and duty are not empty words.”—