In her youth, Patricia Lockwood suffered a terrible shock: her father was murdered before her eyes, and the girl herself was kidnapped. Two valuable paintings also disappeared from the house. For several months, Patricia was kept in a horrifying forest cabin, where afterward the bodies of nine young women were found.
By some miracle, Patricia managed to escape. The kidnappers were never found, and the stolen paintings vanished without a trace. And then—twenty years later—one of the stolen paintings and a leather suitcase with the initials Vin Lockwood, Patricia’s cousin, are discovered in the penthouse of a murdered man.
For the first time in many years, the Federal Bureau of Investigation gets a lead in this dead-end case. Vin, who once collaborated with the FBI, begins searching at the bureau’s request… After all, he has what they don’t: personal interest, rare luck, and his own sense of justice… For the first time in Russian!