Roman izvestnogo sovetskogo pisatelia Vadima Kozhevnikova (1909â€"1984), laureata Gosudarstvennoi premii SSSR i RSFSR, â€" dan uvazheniia smertelno opasnoi rabote sovetskoi razvedki v gody Vtoroi mirovoi voiny. Glavnyi geroi, Aleksandr Belov, po dolgu sluzhby dolzhen priniat oblik vraga svoei Rodiny i, ezheminutno riskuia zhizniu, povesti trudnuiu borbu v tylu vraga. "Shchit i mech" â€" eto ne tolko ostrosiuzhetnaia shpionskaia istoriia, polnaia politicheskikh intrig i beskonechnykh ispytanii uma i sily voli otdelnykh liudei, eto shirokoe, polnoe dramaticheskikh kollizii istoricheskoe polotno, raskryvaiushchee pered chitatelem sotcialnye i psikhologicheskie korni samogo tragicheskogo protivostoianiia dvadtcatogo veka.