About the book: 2023 / September 1946. Lithuania. In the republic, liberated from the Nazis two years ago, numerous, well-armed and organized Lithuanian and Polish nationalist gangs are fighting state security and police agencies, attacking Soviet, party, trade union and Komsomol institutions, enterprises and economic organizations, robbing banks, savings banks, grocery stores confiscate food products from peasants. Citizens who do not want to support the bandits are killed, farms and villages, schools and hospitals are burned. The situation is aggravated by rampant criminality. To help local police and state security agencies, the USSR Ministry of State Security sends a task force of experienced employees led by Lieutenant Colonel Savelyev... The new novel of the famous writer and historian is dedicated to the struggle of Soviet counterintelligence officers and police officers with the nationalist underground after the end of the Great Patriotic War.