About the book: 1966 / This book was written by two authors: Ivan Vasilyevich Bodunov, a retired police commissioner of the third rank, and Evgeniy Samoilovich Ryss, a writer. On in the eyes of Ivan Vasilyevich Bodunov, remarkable pages of the history of the struggle of the Soviet state against crime passed. His track record includes the liquidation of many gangs and the capture of recidivists known in their time. The first years of Bodunov’s work were the years when the Soviet search apparatus was just being created; years, when the people's militia began to win the first victories over the criminal world that the Soviet Republic "inherited" from tsarism. People who came to work in the criminal investigation department from the benches and from the front learned to find and neutralize criminals, to be insightful investigators and skillful experts, Bodunov was also among their ranks. Based on his living memories, the authors tell about the events in which their main character, investigator Vasiliev, acts. Artist Yuri Georgievich Makarov.