Sergey Kurganov found it pleasant to look at her, and he got distracted—he watched how beautifully the woman next to him moved and spoke, and he didn’t understand a word. That was silly and utterly unlike him: at work he always dealt with business and never looked at any girls. But the lab manager, Elena Demidova, with whom he coordinated the technical assignment, was so slender and fragile that he wanted to protect her from—who knows whom… And, as it turned out, he wasn’t wrong!
Something strange was clearly going on around this remarkable woman. First, they slipped one of the secret devices stolen the day before into her safe. Then they tried to kill Lena outright—Sergey barely managed to shield her with his car from a dark dirty machine charging straight at her. Now Sergey understood that he wouldn’t calm down until he figured out who she had gotten in the way of…