The story of the Chekist. Mikhailov V.S.

“The Tale of the Chekist” Viktor Mikhailov was published in 1965. The writer-glassist wrote this book on documentary materials. In the center of the narrative is the fate of Nikolai Gift. German by origin, a talented subsurrent engineer. He was abandoned by the NKVD organs to the occupied Odessa. Gift managed to enter into confidence in the Germans and create an underground group, which has successfully worked for victory for at least a year, against the Germans.

In an exciting style novel, it is written about how Gft solved the operations of German counterintelligence, how he masked mines under coal, destroying German ships. In the 1960s, the novel by Viktor Mikhailov made a sensation-and not only in the USSR. No one imagined how bravely and effectively worked during the Great Patriotic War Odessa underground, which fought against fascism, for the freedom of our homeland. Today, this book is a classic that everyone who is interested in the history of the Great Patriotic War and who loves the story of scouts - real heroes should read.