Small racketeer Savik accidentally becomes the owner of a secret weapon and, using it, makes a dizzying career as a superkiller. Special service major Fokin, convinced of the ineffectiveness of legal methods of fighting crime, uses the African “ring of delayed death,” using it to destroy criminal and political bandits. A man with the operational pseudonym Max finds himself at the center of these events. The intelligence services are using him as a figurehead, but he starts his game...