About the book: 2019 / Exactly 20 years have passed since our paratroopers took Pristina airport in February 1999. The novel tells in detail about this event. Those who are just about to watch or have already watched the film “The Balkan Frontier” will find it useful to read this book. Excellent literary style, skillfully written images of characters, sharp drama and the eternal biblical question of Good and Evil will ideally complement the impressions of the film. The author of the novel, Ivan Naumov, has repeatedly won the literary competitions “Mini-Prose”, “Russian Ecuador”, “Creative Workshop”. Yugoslavia. 1999 A Russian special group receives orders to take control of the Slatina airfield in Kosovo and hold it until reinforcements arrive. But this strategic facility is extremely important to the Albanian field commander and NATO generals. The group is forced to take on an unequal battle with terrorists. Russian peacekeepers and NATO forces rush to the airfield. The world is again close to a big war. But the commander of the special group, Andrei Shatalov, has no time for politics: his beloved girlfriend Jasna is among the hostages at the airport…