Moscow is shaken: during one night, two people are brutally murdered. In the past, both held prominent positions in the state apparatus and influenced the course of the country’s most important events. At the same time, a colonel of the FSB disappears without a trace. Is he involved in the death of the former officials? Who benefited from forcing them to stay silent forever? An expert of the highest class, investigator on especially important cases at the Prosecutor General’s Office Alexander Turetsky, seeks answers to these questions and, step by step, risking his life, draws closer to uncovering the secrets of the bloody crimes…