About the book: 2024 / 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. According to Soviet intelligence , at one of the factories in the suburbs of Prague, components for German FAA missiles are created. A prisoner of war who escaped from there reported that with the approach of the Red Army, the workshops would be blown up, product samples and documentation would be sent to Germany, and the workers would be destroyed. Lieutenant Colonel Maxim Shelestov's group is tasked with finding out where the secret production is located and obtaining technical documentation at any cost. Operatives are trying to operate through the Czech underground. But the Germans are not asleep: they block the tunnel leading to the underground workshops, set up an ambush at a safe house, neutralize the contact... Shelestov understands that he has no choice but to break through to the facility in battle... “This series is good because it was carried out in the main idea is correct: in the NKVD Lavrentiy Beria knew how to trust people, because the People's Commissar himself knew how to trust 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. KremlevThe total circulation of A. Tamonikov’s books is more than 10 million copies.