Junker

The writer, historian and journalist Vyacheslav Kalikinsky opens up a series of historical and detective novels about the emergence and development of Russian counterintelligence under the general name "Agasfer". Russia, the second half of the XIX century. The Russian combat officer Mikhail Berg, saving his friend, kills a Japanese diplomat on a duel and is forced to leave his homeland. He spends twenty years in a foreign land, fulfilling the position of keeper of the monastery library, while the honor of the officer and the love of the girl remaining in his homeland do not force him to return. Meanwhile, clouds are gathering over Russia - German, Austro -Hungarian and Japanese intelligence weaves a network of intrigues against it. In this they are helped by traitors and corrupt officials from the highest echelons of the Russian government. By the power of circumstances, Mikhail Berg becomes an active participant in a dangerous game and takes part in the creation of Russian counterintelligence.
An accurate language, a dynamic plot, a lot of little -known historical facts and details make reading this book not only an exciting, but also an extremely cognitive occupation