The legendary detective tandem of Leonov and Makiyev. In an ordinary apartment in a small town, an explosion rocks the building. The husband is dead, the wife suffers serious injuries, and the child survives by a miracle. The police version says that a moonshine still exploded in the apartment.
But Generals Gurov and Kryachko of the Ministry of Internal Affairs find that the tragedy was caused by a homemade explosive device of immense destructive power—packed inside the body of a smartphone that the wife found in the street.
What is this—someone’s cruel joke or a planned assassination attempt? The detectives know that to take such a step, there must be serious motives. For example, envy—or… unrequited love…
Nikolay Leonov, formerly an investigator in Moscow’s criminal police, knows firsthand how the most tangled criminal cases are solved. That’s why each of his books is a truthful, gripping story with an unpredictable intrigue and an unexpected ending.
The main hero is Colonel Lev Gurov—an elite-class detective with a whole set of positive human qualities. His friends respect him, his enemies fear him, and women love him. He is a real homegrown Superman.
For forty years, the novels about Lev Gurov have consistently drawn fans of Russian detective fiction. The classic series “Black Cat” includes more than 200 books published in tens of millions of copies.