To kill is an art. That’s what experienced FSB counterintelligence operative, code-named the Monk, believes. And his new assignment—to remove a well-known politician—requires taking this art to the highest level of perfection. Any person who enters an unplanned contact with the Monk, who is closely “overseen” by special services, is in for death. And just to make matters worse, the woman he once loved arrives to see him. Trying to save her, the Monk doesn’t even suspect that the game he’s been drawn into is becoming deadly dangerous.