About the book: year / Combat novels about the daily feats of Soviet front-line intelligence officers. A duel of strength and spirit, when there are only a few steps to the enemy’s front line. Details of brutal battles that even veterans who participated in those events do not talk about. November 1942. Preparations for Operation Uranus to encircle the Nazi group at Stalingrad are in full swing. On the eve of the operation, the Soviet command decides to misinform the enemy. Captain Gleb Shubin is instructed to go to the front line in a car, in which, besides him, there will be a “Soviet colonel” with “important documents.” The car, supposedly lost, should fall into the hands of the enemy, and the “important” papers about the upcoming offensive should confuse the Germans. Shubin is no stranger to such adventures. But this time the cunning trick turned out to be a serious test for the intelligence officer... The total circulation of the author’s books is more than 10 million copies.