Another book from the legendary duo Leônov—Makeev. In Moscow, three young people die from an unknown synthetic drug. Police colonels Gurov and Kryachko discover that an overdose of this substance could not have caused a fatal outcome. Everything points to deliberate murder. Searching for the distributors of the drug and the place where it might be manufactured led the investigators into a dead end. Then they decide to do the opposite—to find who benefited from the death of these, at first glance, unrelated boys. The circumstances that emerge soon leave the operatives in a state of real shock…
Nikolay Leonov, a former investigator in the MUR, knew firsthand how the most tangled criminal cases are solved. That’s why each of his books is a true, gripping story with an unpredictable intrigue and an unexpected ending. The main hero of these books, Colonel Lev Gurov, is a top-class detective with a mass of positive human qualities. Friends respect him, enemies fear him, and women love him. He’s a real domestic Superman.
For forty years, novels about Lev Gurov have consistently drawn fans of Russian detective fiction. The classic series “Black Cat” includes more than 200 books, published in tens of millions of copies.