A burst of shots was fired at former sailor Captain Guseyev almost in front of Colonel Gurov’s eyes. Naturally, Gurov took on the case. The deeper Gurov and his partner, Colonel Kryachko, get into the circumstances of the attempted murder, the more questions arise for them. Who and why did they need to shoot an elderly peaceful man? Where did the three crates of gold ingots that Guseyev once transported on his ship go? Why did the crew of his ship languish in a prison of a foreign power for ten years? Where did the burning interest in this case come from for a criminal authority named Dead Man? Answers to these questions will be found when all the “interested parties” gather in the woods near an abandoned homestead. And it’s there—under a hail of automatic gunfire—that Gurov and Kryachko will learn the whole truth…