The real biography of Alexander Mikhailov is, to some extent, a literary biography of Oleg Sokolov, the constant hero of many of the author’s works. Soviet intelligence officer, KGB officer, and then the FSB, investigator and operative, “silovik” and detective, fighter of the Chechen war and soldier of another war - the invisible war against crime, where he and his comrades invariably find themselves at the forefront - Oleg Sokolov always speaks a man of action. But he is also a thinking person, painfully experiencing all the troubles that have befallen the country. The novels and stories of Alexander Mikhailov are built into a kind of “operational search chronicle” of the last decade of the turbulent history of Russia. “The Kevlar Boys” is the first book in the series.