Pierre Nore's action-packed novel Double Crime on the Maginot Line is the first French spy novel. In connection with the threat of an attack by Nazi Germany, France is building powerful defensive structures in the northeast, the so-called Maginot Line. Everyone feared the penetration of German spies into the defensive secrets of this miracle of military technology. The hero of the novel is not a Great Detective at all, but only a good soldier in the service of his homeland. A series of books by Paul Kenya about Coplan has been published since 1953. In the novel “Coplan Returns from Afar,” the talented detective is not only a high-class professional intelligence officer, but also a mentor to young people. Pierre Nemours’ novel “Your health, Mister General!” - the most modern in this collection. His hero is a typical character in an adventure thriller with chases, shooting, helicopters, and miraculous rescues from imminent death at the very last moment. But the book also has a political meaning. Novels are published in Russian for the first time.