About the book: 2018 / What should a young journalist do to attract attention? To remove the stigma of being an “editorial disaster”? Without a doubt, a sensation is needed. The real one, and not some fictitious and inflated one. Alena Zolotareva searched in vain for one, but every time she was unlucky. Either she got caught up in some ridiculous story, or she once again put herself in a stupid position. And all she received from her superiors was another reproachful look and a clear prohibition on doing her own work. It was fantastically unfair, and something had to change. And fortunately for her, the chance presented itself. A chance she could never have dreamed of. It would seem that all the major political and corruption scandals occur in the capital, and provincial journalists cannot get to them. And then it suddenly turns out that one of the defendants in the high-profile case is possibly hiding very close by, some hundred kilometers away, in an abandoned estate from tsarist times on the border of the region. Is it really possible to believe in such luck, and what a distance - a hundred kilometers, even in the night and rain? The main thing is not to be scared and get ahead of your more nimble and experienced colleagues. But time is on her side, and she is definitely lucky, and this doesn’t happen often, and Alena, not caring about reason, rushes headlong into this adventure. She goes to look for Kostrov himself. And rest assured, she will succeed!