What roles hasn’t Colonel Lev Gurov had to play during his long years of work in the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department! But being a candidate for mayor—never. And yet he had to take on that role as well in order to investigate the strange death of the former mayor of the small town of Pokrovsk. He died in a car accident, supposedly because of a sudden heart stop. But Gurov’s intuition tells him: something is off here. During a clever operation, Lev Ivanovich infiltrates the city’s political circles, presenting his candidacy in the election for the new mayor. The detective still doesn’t know what scale of villainy is behind an ordinary, routine campaign…