About the book: 1991 / The seventeenth issue of the annual "Duel" includes the political detective Valentina Mashkin’s “Naked in the Wind”, Anatoly Romov’s story “A Man in an Empty Apartment” about the search for a stolen collection of antique coins and other action-packed stories and short stories. The “Duel” anthology publishes the story “Sliver”, written by Vladimir Zazubrin, a writer of tragic fate, many whose works have not yet seen the light of day. The foreign detective is represented by the novel by the American writer Patrick Quentin “In the Networks».