About the book: 2003 / A famous TV journalist, Leonid Kondrashin, was kidnapped in the North Caucasus. They demand a ransom for it - a collection of precious stones that the oligarch Chegodaev, the owner of the TV channel where the journalist worked, gave as a wedding gift to his young wife. The thieves have a demand: the jewelry must be handed over to them by one unarmed person - private detective Denis Gryaznoe. The Russian authorities and intelligence services are completely bewildered: firstly, they have no idea who he is, secondly, why he was chosen, and thirdly, where to find him at all?