The election campaign in the city of K begins with a strange contract killing. One of the candidates for governor — a university historian whose chances of winning were zero — has been murdered. Who needed his death, and why?
It falls to former special forces captain Sergei Pastukhov and his friends — the heroes of the “Soldiers of Fortune” series — to uncover this mystery. They knew that politics was a dirty business. But just how dirty — no one had imagined…