Ilya Makarov

Ivan Ivanovich Zhurov — unlucky, but very experienced detective. He travels everywhere on his old "Pobeda", one brings up a daughter, loves to drink and has very troubled amur relations with his colleague. All this does not prevent him from masterfully disclosing the most complex and tangled loud criminal cases, for which, besides him, no one more risks to take.

Speeding cars. Rainy St. Petersburg. Nightclubs. The opera. Drugs. Shootouts. Leather coats. Fights. Hotel rooms. Tattoos. Death... The main stake in the game is the body of the deceased "Captain", who even in his death manages to cause a lot of trouble for those who knew him.

A difficult night for everyone at the mobile police group — Ermakova and Mosin. First their car was struck by three bandits, one of whom died, and two escaped. Soon the body of the second criminal inexplicably appeared in a Luggage carrier of patrolmen, and with it the bag filled with money. Around prowling suspicious people, and certainly the third thug among them. But who killed the other? Entangled in the dark streets and mutual suspicion, the characters find themselves in a ring of enemies, where they are waiting for an unexpected bloody denouement…

The year is 1947. Pavel Morozov, a lieutenant of the Engineering Troops, returns home after a victory and two years of work on the restoration of Prague. His mother and fiancee are waiting for him in his native village near Novosibirsk. But instead of happiness and a peaceful life, Pavel is faced with the false accusation of NKVD major Mikhail Bunyugin, camps, a new separation from his beloved and other difficulties of the post-war period.