About the book: 2022 / One of the most popular series by A. Tamonikov, which contains novels about the fate of a unique special unit of the NKVD, subordinate personally to L. Beria. The author's total circulation is more than 10 million copies. “Deadly Flight” is about wartime, about the difficult destinies and dangerous work of unknown heroes who were part of the strike force of “Beria’s special forces”. For the transfer of strategic cargo from the USA to the USSR under Lend-Lease, a special air route is being laid from Alaska to Krasnoyarsk. Enemy intelligence is trying with all its might to thwart the plans of the allies. To prevent provocations, a group of Major Maxim Shelestov is sent to the area of ​​the airfield under construction. The operatives introduce their employee into the existing sabotage group. He manages to reach the leaders of the enemy underground literally on the eve of the operation planned by the Germans... “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 likely against the backdrop of Nelidov’s story." - S. Kremlev