A student at the Aviation Institute, Ivan Shilov, wanted to build airplanes, but became a bandit - that was the time. Luck accompanies him in business and his fellow criminals predict a great future for him. But fate - she is a villain - Ivan realizes - this is not his thing. And by the will of fate, he becomes an operative of the Department for Combating Organized Crime. And not a simple opera, but, perhaps, the best in his profession - like no one else, he knew how the criminal world lives and breathes... The book is full of cunning operational combinations and amazing multi-moves. Both law enforcement officers and criminal gangsters were indignant after reading this book - after all, the author reveals the working methods of both of them, which makes the book realistic and tense.