White snow is the east wind. Linder I.B., Luzan N.N.

The first edition of this book (called “Samurai’s jump”) was published more than twenty years ago. Work on the book was not easy. For two years it took to collect the material and preparation of the manuscript. We, the authors, are bit by bit, and often according to the “reservations” of our legendary scouts, among whom we can call Pavel Anatolyevich Sudoplatov, Yuri Ivanovich Drozdov, Leonid Vladimirovich Shebarshin, Alexei Nikolayevich Botyan, built a literary version of one of the most outstanding operations of domestic special services, and in the most outstanding operations Much has influenced the course of the events of the world history of the middle of the twentieth century. And as it turned out, this book was in many ways ahead of its time.

Today, when the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service raised the veil of secrets over the operation “Snow”, it became clear that this book is not only about the past - it is far about ours not a simple present and no less complex and tricky future.