About the book: 2017 / Former paratrooper Kosarev miraculously survived under the fire of Dushman machine guns in Afghanistan, walked under the bullets of Chechen militants. But it turned out that the war did not end for him in peaceful life. The regional town of Aprelevsk is divided into zones of influence between gangster groups; they resell drugs and buy weapons with the proceeds. And criminal investigation officer Kosarev must almost single-handedly stop this chaos. Of course, he has nerves of iron, he fiercely hates crime, but there are too many bandits. There is only one thing left for him to do - to pit two factions against each other so that they destroy each other... Previously, the book was published under the title “The Blued Arbiter».