This author can handle any genre: hard-hitting action and military adventures, riveting detective fiction and criminal drama. The total print run of S. Zverev’s books exceeds 6 million copies. His name is an unchanging mark of quality for every new book. January 1943. The blockade of Leningrad has been broken. The Red Army, building on its success, pushes the enemy back. But the fascists don’t give up. In one of the sectors, they land a significant counterstrike on our forces. A tank company under Lieutenant Aleksei Sokolov receives an order to eliminate the enemy bridgehead and save a company of Red Army soldiers that has been surrounded from destruction. The tank crews break through German defenses and find themselves at a position defended by… female snipers. To Sokolov’s surprise, they refuse his help. The girls already have their own breakthrough plan. The lieutenant understands that this time his tankers will have to operate under special conditions…