About the book: 2010 / Autumn 1941. Wehrmacht troops storm the Transnistrian fortifications of the Red Army. Its rear areas are flooded with German reconnaissance and sabotage groups. A professional intelligence officer and saboteur, Obersturmführer Stuber moves among the Soviet troops, successfully masquerading as an officer from the army intelligence department. But he was unlucky - a young Russian lieutenant Andrei Gromov stood in his way, appointed to command a pillbox with the formidable name "Berkut". The novel "Scorched by War" continues the cycle "Berkut", begun by the novel "River of the Slain"».