During a performance at the Bolshoi Theater, the editor of the largest Russian newspaper, Matvey Kozhukhov, was shot in the back of the head. The investigation of the crime was entrusted to Alexander Borisovich Turetsky. Working through different versions, the “big guy” gets on the trail of a mysterious organization, whose members are the highest-ranking Russian politicians. People initiated into the secret of the organization pay for their knowledge with death, and the death of Kozhukhov is only the first link in this ominous chain...