Taiga reliably hides the traces of crimes; fear makes people stay silent. A worker from a gold mine, wounded in a brutal fight over the gold, decided to tell everything. Two detectives from Moscow—Lev Gurov and Stas Kryachko—flew into the taiga region to sort out on the spot the lawlessness being carried out there by local bandits. Especially since they are covered by a deputy of the local Duma. But detectives can’t be bought or intimidated—deputy credentials don’t work on them. They can only be destroyed. And even that is quite difficult. Even getting into a taiga swamp, the legendary detectives come out of it dry. The criminals won’t escape punishment…