Confrontation. Novels
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Confrontation. Novels
19.99 €
15.99 €
Julian Semyonovich Semyonov is a Russian writer, historian, journalist, author of the famous novel Seventeen Moments of Spring (1970) and another dozen and a half works about the illegal spy Maxim Isaev (aka Max Otto von Stirlitz), whose name and image acquired a truly cult status in the late Soviet and post-Soviet era. However, in addition to novels about Stirlitz, Yuri Semyonov wrote several prose cycles with other characters - including included in this collection detective trilogy about the work of operatives of the Moscow Criminal Investigation led by Major (later Colonel) Vladislav Kostenko: "Petrovka, 38" (1963), "Ogareva, 6" (1972) and "Confrontation" (1979), considered, along with "Seventeen Moments...", the pinnacle of the writer's work. Dynamic action, relief delineated human characters, the documentary nature of the plot, the authenticity of the nuances of everyday police work made these books bestsellers and predetermined their transfer to the movie and television screens. With one of the characters of this trilogy - journalist Dmitry Stepanov - the reader meets and in the novel "TASS is authorized to declare ..." (1979). The detective about the activities of Soviet counterintelligence, which neutralized the CIA agent nicknamed Clever and thwarted a military coup in the fictional African state of Nagonia, is partly based on real events (the so-called Ogorodnik case) and formed the basis of a multi-part TV movie of the same name (1984), which, like the screen adaptations of other books by the writer, entered the golden fund of Soviet cinematography.
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