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Book 5 of the “Novels of the Cheka” series

The Lucky Chekist

In 1918 the Chekist Yegor Sidorchuk, on the orders of his superiors, handed a small box of diamonds for safekeeping to the Red commander Nikolai Postnov, his friend and…

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Original publisher:
Eksmo
Year:
2013
Language:
Russian (original)
Pages:
290
ISBN:
978-5-699-64198-7
Translations:
English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian (in preparation)
The Lucky ChekistExcerpt in Russian.

About the book

In 1918 the Chekist Yegor Sidorchuk, on the orders of his superiors, handed a small box of diamonds for safekeeping to the Red commander Nikolai Postnov, his friend and comrade in arms. Then Sidorchuk was whirled into the Civil War: he fought the White Guards, put down kulak revolts, and did not remember the story of the diamonds. Until one fine moment he was urgently summoned to the Lubyanka and asked to find Postnov. The point is that the Red commander had run away, taking the jewels with him. He betrayed the Motherland. And Sidorchuk must find and punish the traitor. Find and punish his own friend...

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The Lucky Chekist