If a super-secret weapon just developed in a research center in Russia suddenly ends up in the wrong hands—what should you do then? But what if it has already happened? If two “nuclear briefcases” have been stolen? To stop the kidnappers before it’s too late, you must first track them… a Chechen trail? That version is, of course, right on the surface. However, agent Drongo—who’s conducting the investigation—is convinced that you should never trust the obvious. Perhaps—very possibly!—the kidnappers should be sought not in the burning East at war, but in the prosperous, outwardly neutral West… Where? That’s a different question—one whose answer will determine the outcome of Drongo’s new case…