Admirers of the action-packed genre are well aware of the name Mikhail Mart. This is one of the writers who works without discounting the genre. He is precise, diverse, dynamic and not without elegance. But the main advantage of the writer, of course, remains the plot, sparkling imagination, unexpected turns and spectacular endings. The author has more than three dozen books behind him , a good half of which are filmed by the largest film companies in Russia. The works of Mart, an unsurpassed master of the most complex intrigue and unpredictable plot, have long and firmly won the hearts of readers and became bestsellers! “A Life Taken by Surprise” is a continuation of the novel Broken Shoots.”