Under the leadership of the FSB, the police and prosecutor’s office compile materials in the case of the missing US citizen Mikhail Idrisovich Kaymak, head of a Moscow security firm “Gorgona.” First of all, the investigator is interested in the identity of Vyacheslav Razhny, the owner of a hunting lodge—where Kaymak disappeared.
Razhny has not been seen at the lodge for a long time, and no one knows where to look for him. No one except the allies of the SERGIEV warriors’ order.
And the trouble is brewing in the Sergiev warriors’ order. For two years, by the verdict of Oslyab, two hundred forty-eight warriors of the Ambush Regiment have been in the Syrour ochishche, surrounded by the Veshchersk woods—free and hereditary arakhs, the best of the best. The path to that place is also indicated for Vyacheslav Razhny, who in a duel with a wolf lost a fervent heart—such was the judgment of Oslyab. Razhny could refuse the punishment and leave into the world. But first, he wants to find out what he was sentenced to—lifelong hard labor, or the search for truth…