About the book: 2020 / Having forgiven Victor Barg, Zinaida Krestovskaya begins to lead a calm, almost family life. Work at the institute, albeit unloved, next to the man for whom she fought so hard - isn’t that enough? But Zina suddenly begins to understand that all this is not for her, that she needs risk, adrenaline. And suddenly she gets it in abundance. The new case, which Krestovskaya is investigating as a full-fledged employee of the NKVD, is not just dangerous, it is deadly. She will again have to face the secret developments of the NKVD, which, as you know, did not stop at anything…