Kabul - the Caucasus. Volkov V.L.

2000. Four experienced saboteurs from Afghanistan seek to get to Germany through the Caucasus and Moscow. They have one goal - to commit a terrorist attack in Germany as a scale that the world has not yet seen. They intend to prepare an explosion at the Cologne stadium for six years, during one of the games of the World Cup. Moscow writer Balashov never wrote about terrorists or war. His heroes are from the midst of Soviet intellectuals of the eighties, lost in the Russian nineties. Suddenly, he receives a profitable offer-to write a book about the Soviet-Afghan war. And in front of him the door to the world of new people for him is opened, and the line of his life crosses the path of saboteurs.

The novel “Kabul -Caucasus” was completed in the summer of 2001, a few weeks before the attack on September 11. This is not a detective, not a thriller. In the early 2000s, critics called him an explosion novel. Then they compared it either with the anti-war novels of the remark, then with the Forsyte-book books, and even with the epic “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy. In fact, “Kabul - the Caucasus” is the first book of the Triots of the “Forestry Center”, the genre of which, at least in Russian prose, has not yet received its name.