The books of Joe Alex, the author of action-packed stories and novels, enjoy constant success in his homeland - Poland. True, under his real name - Maciej Slomczynski - he is better known as a literary critic, screenwriter, and literary translator. Joe Alex is also the constant protagonist of his works - an English detective writer who, like Simenonovsky Maigret, unravels ingenious criminal collisions. “I struck the third blow ...” is the first of Joe Alex’s books, which brought him real popularity. The Russian version of the name is somewhat different from the Polish - in the original “I will tell you how he died...”. An attentive reader can easily determine what caused this.