Crime in post-communist Russia has only gotten worse: rubles are scarce; blood, plentiful. In the eyes of Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov and his metropolitan police team, newfound democracy has emboldened those already on the path to hell. And a trio of nasty cases confirms their worst fears.Deputy Inspector Sasha Tkach must find the murderous thieves who have terrorized an impoverished neighborhood.
Policewoman Elena Timofeyeva raids a house filled with Czarist treasures, all of which disappear the next day.
Relentless Inspector Emil Karpo will not rest until he finds the Mafia beasts who killed the only woman he has ever loved.
Playing against time and the odds, Rostnikov and company have their hands full upholding the law, and holding on to something they can believe in, in a country wracked by political change and its consequences.
