About the book: year / Caviar and fish in these parts are the only way to make a living. Legally this is impossible. And now, which began by accident, the confrontation between people and the authorities flares up. The heroes of the novel are residents of one of the villages in the Far East of Russia. Hunters, fishermen, their wives, the chief of the district police, his beloved, his two deputies. 20% rollback. The chief's secretary, a cafe barmaid, a Muscovite hunter, one difficult scourge, a special brigade of the Moscow riot police. Spawning salmon, forest animals and birds. Snow, mountains, sun, cooling rivers and autumn taiga. The novel reads like a detective story, but it’s not a detective story, of course... This is a novel about a Russian peasant’s thief’s longing for freedom.