About the book: 2022 / A novel about wartime, about the difficult destinies and dangerous work of unknown heroes who were part of the strike force of "Beria's special forces". Total circulation of books A Tamonikov - more than 10 million copies. Summer 1943. A major strategic operation is being prepared in the Kursk region. Soviet counterintelligence becomes aware that by this time Bandera detachments have been secretly formed in our rear areas, which in the near future will intensify sabotage work in order to interfere with the actions of the Red Army. Maxim Shelestov’s group was tasked with crossing the front line and taking measures to disunite the nationalist environment. The infiltration operation has been developed to be reliable, but each group member will have to survive in real combat conditions on their own... “This series is good because it conveys the correct main idea: in the NKVD, Lavrentiy Beria knew how to trust people, because the People’s Commissar himself knew how to trust them. The story of Major Shelestov’s group is similar to the real story of a major Abwehr agent, former staff captain of the tsarist army Nelidov, who ended up in the Lubyanka in September 1939. The adventures of Maxim Shelestov and his comrades described in this novel look all the more probable against the background of Nelidov’s story.” – S. Kremlev One of the most popular series by A. Tamonikov! Novels about the fate of a unique special unit of the NKVD, subordinate personally to L. Beria.