Shadows Beyond the City

A novel about the tense work of specialists of a unique KGB unit. From a brainstorming session while preparing a secret operation to a real fight with a cunning enemy anywhere on Earth—a path available only to courageous and devoted professionals.

1980. Around one of the cities in Siberia, a small colony houses fascist accomplices serving their sentences. The local KGB office learns that, under the guise of relatives, unfamiliar people arrive to one of the settlers—people who look and behave very much like enemy saboteurs. Then unrest begins in the city: former war criminals demand that the authorities grant them equal rights with the veterans of the Great Patriotic War. The authorities категорically refuse. The situation heats up day by day. Restoring order in the city is assigned to a group of the special forces "Don" under Lieutenant Colonel Vyacheslav Bogdanov. The fighters understand that the instigators of the unrest aren’t simple hooligans—and that means the coming battle will be serious…

"The novels of A. Tamonikov are about real men for whom the notions of valor, honor, and duty are not empty words." — V. Kolychev. Total circulation of A. Tamonikov’s books—over 10 million copies.