The author of numerous popular detective stories, Vasily Vedeneev, worked for a significant part of his life at the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department. At the center of his real crime novel is the merciless, treacherous struggle of the Moscow mafias. The black product of perestroika - “dragons”, like tarantulas caught in the same jar, are digging into each other. Poison and dagger, pistol and explosives - these are the available means of the main characters in the story. And the victims of their bloody deeds are rolled into thick asphalt, walled up in concrete beams, buried in the fields of a boundless power...