About the book: 2014 / Famous producer Mark Lisnyansky is killed in the center of Moscow. The capital's detectives immediately begin the investigation and soon detain the main suspect - director Albert Piktirimov, who, on the eve of the murder, being fairly drunk, said that he was going to “overwhelm” the producer. Reporter Aristarkh Rusakov does not believe that a harmless alcoholic director could commit murder. He begins his own investigation and soon finds a new suspect. Rusakov is passionate about the search for truth and does not even suspect that he has already been sentenced to death…