About the book: 1971 / Nikolai Aleksandrovich Asanov has been published since the late twenties. As a worker at the Chusovsky metallurgical plant in the Urals, he began his career as a newspaper reporter. The writer’s first poems and essays appeared in 1927.N. Asanov is the author of major works: he wrote the novels “The Magic Stone”, “Wind from the Sea”, “Electric Island”. All these works are dedicated to our contemporaries. In recent years, N. Asanov began working in the genre of short stories. A sharp plot, deep psychological insight into the image of a contemporary are characteristic of the writer’s new stories. The stories combined in the collection “Fiery Arc” are dedicated to military intelligence officers, their heroic and necessary work.