About the book: year / A police chief was stabbed to death in Semipalatinsk. Hot on the trail, the crime is solved and the killer is shot dead during his arrest. The case has been archived. However, military intelligence officer Nikolai Lykov-Nefediev suspects that a dummy figure was slipped into the investigation. In fact, the police chief was eliminated by agents of the British station, whom he pressed hard. And they blamed it on local criminals... Nikolai reported his suspicions to St. Petersburg. He proposed opening a new inquiry secretly from local authorities. At his suggestion, an official of special assignments of the Police Department, collegiate adviser Lykov, arrived in the city. Father and son together catch the real killers in quiet Semipalatinsk. And the resident, in turn, is preparing the next operation. Its victim should be Second Lieutenant Lykov-Nefediev…