Collegiate Assessor Alexei Lykov is not destined to rest on his laurels, enjoying the comfort of his home among his children and beautiful wife. Service once again calls him to a dangerous assignment. This time Lykov must go to Warsaw and investigate several crimes. Russian officers have been brutally murdered—left to die with their bellies slit open… The authorities would easily have written it all off as the work of ordinary criminals, if not for Lykov’s stubbornness; risking his life, he managed to uncover a conspiracy on a state scale!