In the novel "Daring Raid" by the laureate of literary prizes of the USSR Ministry of Defense and the KGB of the USSR Georgy Sviridov tells about the events of the turbulent 1918, when Soviet Turkestan, surrounded by the fronts of the civil war, was sent help at the direction of V.I. Lenin, equipped with a special military expedition that carried ammunition, weapons, gold. English intelligence found out about this and sent her agent to the expedition... The novel has a sharp plot, full of dramatic episodes.