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About the product New novel by the author of the bestselling book «June»; the book completing the «I-trilogy» Annotation «Fighter» — a novel about Soviet pilots, «Stalin’s falcons». They crossed the North Pole, tormented the air paths to America. Their life is a metaphor for overcoming in the name of a higher goal, the trust of the people and the leader. Dmitry Bykov tried to look beyond ideology, to understand what kind of power ruled Soviet history. The word «exterminator» in the novel is ambiguous. In the thirties in the USSR, each representative of the «new nation» could be both a fighter and an exterminated one at the same time, depending on the circumstances. Many plot twists of the novel, telling about exploits in the sky and undercover battles in the authorities, well illustrate this chapter of our history. «This novel is my last appeal to Soviet history. At least, I think so, because it seems to have explained her phenomenon. This is a novel about pilots — «Stalin’s falcons», about the polar drift and the storming of the stratosphere, about several geniuses and one king-reporter, about a woman who is doomed to return to her killer over and over again … «(Dmitry Bykov)» And then Petrov saw a rapidly approaching fighter in front of him. It flew straight towards, for some reason not firing; a huge, black, model unknown to him. He could not make out who was at the helm, he remembered the red stripes on the wings — probably the personal war paint of the ace, The closer Petrov flew to him, the clearer he understood: the size of this machine exceeded any human understanding, more than fifteen, no, twenty meters in span, with an incredible propeller th, quantities. Petrov realized that this screw would now chop him up, grind him into minced meat, and with a wild, last effort pulled him up. The giant advanced on him and swallowed him. «
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