The sharp-tongued politician Mr. Halivin has always acted successfully according to the principle: the goal justifies the means. So when someone stole a diskette with compromising material on him—his beloved—he came up with nothing better than to kidnap the private detective Tatyana Ivanova and force her to find the dangerous thing. Well, sometimes you have to work under conditions like these. The famous sleuth faces additional difficulties because of the heavy psychological atmosphere surrounding the client. But whatever the case, the results of the investigation were worth the risk that fell to her lot…