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. A special board lands a group of lieutenant colonel Maxim Shelestov on the border of Belarus and Lithuania. Here, in one of the villages, a detachment of saboteurs was blocked, carrying out a special task for the Abwehr in our rear. The enemy is putting up fierce resistance and is not going to give up. Shelestov finds out that the traitor Vasily Fedorchuk is operating at the head of the detachment under a German name. At the beginning of the war, the bandit, pretending to be dead, managed to elude the operatives. This time, the traitor to the Motherland will not escape retribution... “This series is good because it conveys the correct main idea: 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. Kremlev