About the book: year / One of the most popular series by A. Tamonikov! Novels about the fate of a unique special unit of the NKVD, subordinate personally to L. Beria. A novel about wartime, about the difficult destinies and dangerous work of unknown heroes who were part of the strike force of “Beria’s special forces.” 1943. In Norway, the Germans began developing new weapons of unprecedented destructive power. According to Soviet intelligence, the young scientist Wenge, possessing secret information, refused to participate in the fascist project and tried to flee abroad. Major Maxim Shelestov's group is tasked with finding Wenge and involving him in work on a new weapon, but on the side of the USSR. The scouts did not take into account one thing: on the coast of Norway, where, according to the operation plan, Shelestov’s group was supposed to land, a deadly surprise had already been prepared for it... “This series is good because it conveys the correct main idea: in the NKVD Lavrentiy Beria knew how to trust people, because The People's Commissar himself knew how to believe them. The story of Major Shelestov’s group is similar to the real story of a major Abwehr agent, former staff captain of the tsarist army Nelidov, who ended up in the Lubyanka in September 1939. The adventures of Maxim Shelestov and his comrades described in this novel look all the more probable against the background of Nelidov’s story.” – S. Kremlev