Two GRU officers are killed. It’s strange, because the victims were professionals of the highest class, capable of handling an entire crowd.
Even more riddles arise from analyzing the evidence found at the scene: drops of blood capable of curing cancer, a feather from an unseen bird—when it is tossed into the air, it doesn’t fall but hangs there.
And the officers were killed with an unknown weapon that burned holes in their chests the size of a plate. One of the dead men had his eyes removed.
Soon it turns out this isn’t the only killing of this kind—it’s only one of…
Something far more serious than a banal special services war seems to be happening.