The novel is about wartime, about the difficult fates and dangerous work of unknown heroes who joined the strike force of Beria's special forces.The summer of 1944. Soviet troops are developing an offensive operation codenamed "Bagration". Not expecting such a powerful blow, the Nazis were forced to hastily evacuate their rear services. In the area of Orsha, having taken the secret archive of the agent network, the head of the local Gestapo department disappears. Maxim Shelestov's group is sent to search for documents of exceptional importance. One of its members, Boris Kogan, having almost reached the goal, suddenly stumbles upon an enemy patrol. For a counterintelligence agent, this is certain death.… This would have happened if at the last moment one of the Germans had not seemed suspiciously familiar to Kogan…This series is good because it contains the right main idea: in the NKVD of Lavrentiy Beria they knew how to trust people, because the people's commissar himself knew how to believe 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 got to Lubyanka in September 1939. The adventures of Maxim Shelestov and his comrades described in this novel look all the more likely against the background of Nelidov's story. (S. Kremlev)The total circulation of A. Tamonikov's books is more than 10 million copies.