A book about the first years of the NEP, when the young Soviet republic had to fight counterrevolutionaries, bandits, and speculators.
The heroes of P. Nilyin—workers of the criminal investigation service in one of the small Siberian towns—throw themselves entirely into this struggle. Clearing the Soviet land of those whom the wolf-like morality of the old world had hopelessly maimed, they also fight for the triumph of true, genuine socialist morality.