About the book: 1972 / Mikhail Parkhomov's new book takes us back to the harsh days of the Great Patriotic War. Its heroes are soldiers of the invisible front, people who modestly say about themselves that they are “involved in intelligence and counterintelligence.” The author talks about their courage and perseverance, about how they overcome the most difficult and confusing situations with honor. He leads the reader to besieged Odessa, to the snows of the Moscow region, to the sands of the Kara-Kum - to where the fate of the war was decided in those recent years. With warmth and sympathy, he reveals the complex and at the same time integral characters of military sailors Vasily Meshcheryak and Pyotr Nechaev, whose fates are traced most fully in the novel, as well as those whom they met on their military path.