About the book: 2012 / An action-packed novel about the invisible life-and-death struggle of the security officers of Tsaritsyn - Stalingrad with the enemies of the Fatherland at different stages of history - over the years Civil War, on the eve of the Great Patriotic War and until the victorious year for the hero city of 1943. Along with the main character N. Magura, the first security officer F. Dzerzhinsky, the chairman of the OGPU V. Menzhinsky, the Cossack ataman P. Krasnov, Baron Wrangel, Hitler, Goering, Canaris, Rosenberg, Field Marshal Paulus. The author drew much of what he wrote from archival documents marked “Strictly Secret.” The book is published on the 95th anniversary of the Cheka-FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the 70th anniversary of the victory in the Battle of Stalingrad.