Trophy from the Abyss

A novel about wartime, about the complex fates and dangerous work of unknown heroes who joined the strike force of "Beria's Special Forces." 1942. Major Maxim Shelestov's operational group receives orders to find the geologist Aristarh Vitold in the German-occupied territory near Stalingrad. The Germans are hunting him to gain information about the voids formed under the city after the gypsum deposits were mined. The fascists plan to use these voids to attack the Soviet troops from the rear. In the hell of fierce battles near Stalingrad, finding a person is an almost impossible task. However, the operatives manage to get a lead on the scientist. But in order to bring him to the headquarters alive and unharmed, they will have to go through more than one circle of hell… "This series is good because it conveys the true main idea: in the NKVD of Lavrentiy Beria, they knew how to believe in people because the People's Commissar himself knew how to believe in them. The story of Major Shelestov's group is similar to the real story of a large Abwehr agent, former staff captain of the Tsarist army, Nelidov, who ended up in Lubyanka in September 1939. The adventures of Maxim Shelestov and his comrades described in this novel appear even more likely against the backdrop of Nelidov's story." — S. Kremlov The total circulation of A. Tamonikov's books is over 10 million copies.