About the book: 1998 / The age of the hired killer is short. The perpetrator of the terrorist attack that claimed the life of the bandit leader was sentenced by those who ordered it. But you can’t take the former “Afghan” warrant officer nicknamed Mechanic with your bare hands. On the path of the criminal war that broke out after the Mercedes explosion he caused, he defeats his enemies. But when the worst is behind him, fate pits him again against Nikita Vetrov, a veteran of the Chechen war, fearless, skilled with weapons, and they meet in a mortal duel.