Sunset of the Comandante

A novel about the intense work of specialists from a unique KGB unit. From brainstorming while preparing a secret operation to a real clash with a cunning enemy anywhere on Earth—this is a path only brave and devoted professionals can handle.

1967. The comrades of the revolutionary romantic Ernesto Che Guevara face fierce resistance from the Bolivian regime. To keep Commander’s actions under control, the KGB plants an agent code-named Tania in his entourage. For a while, the situation stabilizes.

However, aggressive Bolivian peasants expose the location of the Cuban squad to the authorities. To save Che and the valuable agent Tania from an inevitable death, a group of KGB special forces “Don,” led by Major Vyacheslav Bogdanov, is sent to Bolivia. The fighters still don’t know that the upcoming task will be much more difficult than it seems: on the eve of the operation, the Cuban squad split into parts and “dissolved” into the forests…

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