About the book: year / Nikolay Daleky is known to the reader as the author of adventure stories and novels. The partisan struggle behind enemy lines found its truthful reflection in them. The plot of the story “The Poisonous Sting” centers on the combat of the Soviet intelligence officer-partisan Serovol with seasoned Gestapo masters of espionage and provocation, the fight against enemy spies who penetrated the partisan detachment, and with those who trained and trained them, supervised their activities.