In Saint Petersburg, an important guest from Mongolia is murdered—someone who decided to sell his soul to the devil. Soon after, the writer Kamensky is shot with a silver bullet. Many years later, our Russian officer Solodovnikov takes part in a military campaign in Mongolia. And almost at the same time, in the streets of Saint Petersburg, Mongolian shamans recite spells under the sign of a “swastika”…
Events from several eras intertwine in the novel into a tangled web of crimes and punishments, which only one person can unravel—Ivan Dmitrievich Putilin.