Willpower Threshold

A novel set in wartime, about complex fates and dangerous work by unknown heroes who are assigned to the special-duty ranks of Beria’s “special forces.” Soviet counterintelligence learns that after the German Wehrmacht units retreated from the Caucasus region, German intelligence networks remained—and that they are preparing a serious provocation. A blast is planned in the mountains, the result of which will be that one of the local mining and processing plants is buried under a powerful mudflow. A group led by Maxim Shelestov is tasked with preventing the sabotage. The operatives manage to identify and destroy most of the attackers—but their leader remains at large. To lure him into a trap, Shelestov orders his assistant Mikhail Sosnovsky to play one unusual “role”…

“This series is good because it contains the correct main idea: in the NKVD under Lavrenty Beria, they knew how to believe in people, because the people themselves knew how to believe—namely the people’s commissioner,” — S. Kremlev.

The total print run of A. Tamonikov’s books is more than 10 million copies.