Investigating the kidnapping of a major businessman, FSB captain Maxim Laptev suddenly finds himself drawn into the whirlwind of an incredible case of unprecedented scale. The target of the conspirators is the President of Russia himself, and the villains are not shy about their means. The fate of the country once again hangs in the balance, but... As the plot of this ironic thriller progresses, the interests of a former editor of an influential newspaper, a former billionaire, a former minister of culture and many others, past and present, will intersect, including the new UN Secretary General and a writer Ferdinand Izyumov, who returned to a new life at the numerous requests of workers. The reader can solve this book like a crossword puzzle: politicians and oligarchs, figures in the arts and sciences, figures in metropolitan parties, Rublev centenarians, newsmakers of various press - no one will escape the author's signature malice. There seems to be not a single more or less significant figure on the Russian horizon whose shadow would not flicker across the territory of the novel. However, no one will be able to identify all the characters and guess all the plot twists of the novel. The writer Lev Gursky is well known as the author of the book “Change of Places,” on which the popular television series “D.D.D. Detective Dubrovsky's dossier."