How bitter it is, having gone beyond the equator on a fashionable cruise to the places where the famous “Lord of the Rings” was filmed, to lose to smithereens in a casino, and upon returning to your native northern city to be faced with a double who has taken your place in the sun. Moreover, this fiend of hell is having fun with a very dirty business - kidnapping teenagers for unknown purposes. And the valiant law enforcement agencies are not chasing the mysterious twin, but after you. This is exactly the kind of toss that the eternally unfair fate played with Sergei Ozhogov, aka Ash. And then a war breaks out over the redistribution of the shadow medical market, and the corpses of the authorities are buried in mountains of counterfeit pills. And Ash has no choice but to fit into the obviously vile game on his side. Begun in the novel “Ashes and Gold of Akela” and continued in the novel “Ash and the Cocaine King,” Ozhogov’s adventures do not end in this book.