About the book: 2017 / Correspondent Ilya Ladogin did not fully know how great the difference was between the truth and what they write about Afghanistan in Soviet newspapers. But when he arrived “beyond the river,” a lot opened up before his eyes. Robbery and smuggling – that’s what was hidden under the camouflage tunic of the Afghan war. But it is here that Ilya will find his first love, for which he moved from Kharkov to Moscow ten years ago. It is for her sake that he will fight for the truth, putting his career and life on the line..