“The most terrible thing that the post-perestroika period has given rise to is the appearance in Russia of criminals coming to cities and villages from all over the once great country, which has now broken up into separate “principalities”, in order to rob Russian people on their land, in their own home,” the hero of the novel, Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Knyazev, reflects bitterly. Difficult, sometimes insoluble questions are raised by the author, and his heroes not only reflect on them - they fiercely oppose the criminal world.* * *Lieutenant Colonel of the security forces Arthur Knyazev. He is uncompromising, merciless and sometimes cruel, for which he received the nickname “Scorpio”. He paid for it with the death of his loved ones. The bleeding soul increases its strength tenfold...