Georgy Pavlovich Tushkan (1906–1965) is a wonderful Russian writer, traveler, and veteran of the Great Patriotic War. He wrote little, but almost every book of his was an event in literature. The novel “FAU Hunters” (1961) is a fascinating, lively story about the everyday life of front-line intelligence. Senior Lieutenant Bazhenov’s group has a special “specialization”: collecting and checking operational information about all the enemy’s military innovations, be it a new automatic carbine, a hand grenade launcher or... a secret plant for the production of “weapons of retaliation.”