I. Khmelevskaya appears in this novel in the role of the Polish Dick Francis. A daring heroine of Joanna is not limited only to playing casino games and in arcade-game machines halls. She passionately loves horses and racing. But, as she herself explains to newcomers, the win depends not on the horse and not on the jockey. The horse that will come first to the finish line is the one that the mysterious big-shots have bet on. You can only guess who they are: mafia from under Warsaw’s Lomza? new Russians? high-ranking officials…