About the book: 2020 / October 1941. Nazi punitive detachments are committing atrocities on the territory of Belarus. The invaders burn cities and villages, exterminate civilians, and scour in search of partisans. German propaganda accuses the communists of forcibly driving people into the forests to certain death. Stalin is furious: the occupiers and slanderers must be severely punished! To destroy representatives of the “new government”, a group of Major Maxim Shelestov is sent to the Minsk region. He already has a bold plan for a revenge operation. But the enemy is strong and merciless, and in his methods of war there is no honor, no conscience - nothing human at all…