Confrontation. Novels. Semenov Yu.

Julian Semenovich Semenov-Russian writer, historian, journalist, author of the famous novel “Seventeen Moments of Spring” (1970) and one and a half ten more works about the intelligence officer-illegal Maxim Isaeva (aka Max Otto von Stirlitz), whose name and image acquired In the late Soviet and post -Soviet era, a truly cult status. However, in addition to the novels about Stirlitz, Yu. Semenov, several prose cycles were written with the participation of other heroes - including the detective trilogy included in this collection on the work of operatives of the Moscow criminal investigation department, headed by the major (later colonel) Vladislav Kostenko: “Petrovka, 38” (1963), “Ogareva, 6” (1972) and “Confrontation” (1979), considered, along with “Seventeen Moments...”, the peak of the writer's work. The dynamic action, reliefly outlined human characters, documentary of the plot, the reliability of the nuances of everyday police work made these books bestsellers and predetermined their transfer to film and television screens. With one of the characters of this trilogy - journalist Dmitry Stepanov, the reader is found in the novel “TASS is authorized to declare...” (1979). A detective about the activities of Soviet counterintelligence, which neutralized the CIA agent by the nicknamed Smart and tore off the military coup in a fictional African state of Nagonia, is partially based on real events (the so -called gardener) and formed the basis of the multi -part television film (1984), which, like the adaptation of others books of the writer, entered the gold fund of Soviet cinema.