General without an army. Tamnikov A.

Combat novels about the daily feat of Soviet front -line intelligence officers. A duel of strength and spirit, when there are only a few steps to the front edge of the enemy. Details of fierce battles that even veterans do not talk about - participants in those events.

Summer of 1942. The Soviet attack on Lyuban was stalled. The second shock army was in the boiler. In search of her commander, General Vlasov, a group of scouts of senior lieutenant Gleb Shubin is sent. It is necessary at all costs to save the general and his headquarters. All hope for partisans who know the area well. But at the appointed time, the partisans did not get in touch: the detachment was ambushed and died. Shubin understands that now, in deaf unfamiliar forests, under the continuous enemy fire, they will have to act independently...