About the book: 1999 / After the tragic death of Andrei Panin from a stray bullet, his wife Lisa discovers among her husband’s things a bag with a pistol and one hundred thousand dollars. An unexpected discovery makes her wonder whether Andrei was the person he claimed to be - an exemplary family man and a talented astrophysicist. Rapidly developing events lead Lisa to the understanding that Panin was not a person at all, and now mortal danger threatens her and her son Maxim.