About the book: 2019 / The corpse of the manager of an estate belonging to General Tarakanov of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was found in a forest near Moscow. The police regard this as a daring challenge and entrust the investigation to Colonel Lev Gurov. From a witness who miraculously escaped, the detective learns that one of Tarakanov’s subordinates took part in the attack on the manager. It remains to find out the motive for the crime. Gurov “takes the trail” and comes to a stunning conclusion: the corpse in the forest is only the first link in a carefully planned bloody chain that leads... to a love triangle.