Ilaryon Zabrodov, a former GRU instructor, is approached by his neighbor from the stairwell—an old man, Granovsky—with a request to hide a folder of great value left by his son, who died in an air crash. And so Zabrodov, unexpectedly, ends up at the center of a tangled story whose roots go back to the early 2000s, when the owner of the airline “Silver Wings,” Edward Parshin, had only just begun supplying weapons to the countries of the Middle East.
By arranging cooperation with weapons suppliers from the USA and Germany, Parshin persistently tries to find Granovsky’s folder. The GRU, foreign intelligence services, and special units get drawn into the action—but Zabrodov, as always, thinks not only about matters of national importance, but also about the safety of the most defenseless people in this story: Granovsky’s widow and their son Mitya…