City of Dark Affairs

Lieutenant Colonel of police Artem Malakhov, arranged through a friend’s favor, is appointed deputy chief of the police department (UVd) of one of the towns in the Moscow region. The new man causes dislike among his colleagues. In the local administration—like in the whole city—all that brings income has long been divided among “their own.” Artem doesn’t want to put up with criminal laws. He unmasks an elite prostitute attached to him for surveillance and rushes to reveal underground schemes of unscrupulous businessmen. But all of that lasts only until he comes to after being hit on the head near a suspect who had been shot with his service pistol…

One more gripping story in which human feelings are put through harsh tests by unforgiving circumstances. An author with power, an author of love, an author of nostalgia—for those times when strict notions ruled the world and real men were real men. The author’s total print run is over 13 million copies.