The novel is set deep in the wilderness of a remote Siberian taiga, where human moral laws end and the exotic amusements of a certain “new Russian” begin—he sets up a total hunt for people who don’t suspect that for this “mad hunter” they are merely prey, and their fate is already decided. But the events unfold so that not just some random tourist gets caught in this web—the First Rank naval special forces captain who has been on a family vacation in those places…