About the book: 2017 / Mil-Mika's novel (M. Lyzlova and M. Kazartsev) "Black Octopus" is one of the rarest works of Soviet adventure -fantastic literature of the 1920s. The novel, published in separate editions in Voronezh, tells about the struggle of valiant security officers with an underground White Guard organization that planned to raise a peasant uprising in the Red rear. Murders, disguises, mysterious dungeons, chases and fights, as well as a number of “rays of fear” and numerous “red devils” are included.