A big businessman has swallowed up the entire city. The city declared war on him! He got everyone! And a bullet got him too! His former security chief, Colonel of the FSB—retired Zubanos—is a professional. He knows a lot. He is dangerous.
And so the city authorities accuse him of murdering his former boss, put him in prison, and beat him until he’s half-dead. A GRU general, Fedorov, saves him from the enraged cops and offers him to become an assassin in order to take revenge on his offenders.
If he refuses, they’ll kill him. If he does the job, they’ll kill him anyway. And he agrees.
Because he’s a colonel. Because he’s an ex-FSB colonel. Because he hopes to survive. Because he’s a professional!