About the book: 2006 / "In the history of mankind, heroism and meanness have always walked on parallel courses, and somewhere between them dangled philistinism, cowardice, and spinelessness. And it always turned out that a cowardly little soul rushes and rushes between two poles, and in the end the current will pull her towards baseness, meanness.” Widely known works about the struggle of security officers and criminal investigation officers against the enemies of the Soviet state during the NEP years.