About the book: 2022 / The life of Major General Vasily Efimovich Grachev is like an action-packed novel. Having “reservation” he voluntarily went to the front in the terrible autumn of 1942, went through the crucible of the Battle of Kursk in the ranks of the airborne division... suddenly discovering that he was actually serving in a detachment attached to the legendary SMERSH. And the subsequent decades of service in military counterintelligence, filled with continuous struggle with strangers and friends - with agents of the Abwehr and the CIA, with Western Ukrainian nationalists and with the machinations of the all-powerful deputy chairman of the KGB Tsinev... No, this is not a novel. This is true.