This serial killing even shocked the seasoned detective Gurov. Thirteen corpses—and every one of them was a police officer! Hardly had Colonel Gurov begun investigating when he traced it to an eighteen-year-old named Alexey Solnyshkin, a former orphanage resident who had recently been convicted—allegedly—for the deliberate murder of a girl. Examining Alexey’s personal file and talking to people who knew him closely, Gurov concludes that the criminal case against Alyosha was fabricated. But by whom? The investigation leads the colonel to someone from the highest ranks of power…