This book was created by the author from start to finish. Of course, it uses some original materials both from the author’s own practice, a former Russian investigator and lawyer, and from the practice of other Russian lawyers. However, the events, settings and characters are certainly fictitious. Coincidences of names and titles with the names and names of real-life persons and places can only be accidental. In one of the courtyards of St. Petersburg, a girl was brutally murdered. This murder opens a chain of strange and terrible events, which results in a war between the city's youth groups. Alexander Borisovich Turetsky is called upon to stop the bloodbath. Investigating the case, senior assistant to the Prosecutor General Turetsky understands: only one person can stop the war. But the hunt is already underway for him. The outcome of the whole matter depends on who gets to this person first...