The book includes action-packed detective works - the novel “The Balance of Fear”, the stories “I Don’t Need Immortality”, “The Forge of Flame”, “Imported Witness” and others, as well as short stories. Life in the country that is being rebuilt dictates different, more flexible and effective forms and methods of work of law enforcement agencies. The works included in the book tell about the struggle of police officers, courts and prosecutors against the shadow economy, banditry and embezzlement, and other crimes. The threads of some of them stretch abroad. But even in these cases, the law prevails - the criminals are exposed, and they suffer the deserved punishment.