Lev Kotlyar

Retired Colonel Matveev takes on an unofficial assignment to revenge his friend's death and catch one of the most dangerous terrorists who managed to escape to America during a failed operation in Chechnya.

There is a landslide departisation in the USSR. There was a firm ready to finance a competition to fill vacant positions among former party members, of course, middle and lower levels. The competitions of former party functionaries received the status of the "First Party Olympiad of the USSR"...