About the book: 2016 / Having learned that one of the advisers to a State Duma deputy has a collection of expensive artistic paintings, the thief in law, the watcher, Vladimir Petrovich, gives it to his assistants task to take it away. A deputy's adviser is kidnapped, and a security specialist, who is serving a serious prison sentence, is brought from prison for a lot of money. Vladimir Petrovich’s “fighters” enter the territory of the adviser’s cottage and take away the paintings. The surviving guard cannot explain why he opened the gate and what the “spot” was that entered or entered the territory. A group of investigators under Captain Mukhin is involved in this high-profile case. In their development, they almost reach the solution to the “spot”, and senior lieutenant Alexey Porogov even reaches his wedding, but suddenly the Russian FSB service takes the case away from them. The thief in law sells the stolen collection to his competitor, Shaman, also a thief in law. He pays with counterfeit bills. Vladimir Petrovich is furious... But, unexpectedly for everyone, he dies from the killer’s shot. Zhora Khrust (the right hand of Vladimir Petrovich), while in prison, takes revenge for his boss. The shaman is also killed. And what’s strange is that Captain Mukhin’s group has practically nothing left to investigate. Vladimir Petrovich’s community ceased to exist. At all. Who helped? And did Vladimir Petrovich really die??