The body of a man with signs of violent death was found in the van. It was possible to establish the identity of the murdered man; he turned out to be Alexey Lazhkin, a smuggler and supplier of sturgeon caviar to the Ural black market. Information was soon received that Lazhkin was transporting his cargo from the town of Belushi and that it was there that the leaders of the Astrakhan fishing mafia settled, headed, presumably, by a local high-ranking police officer. The exposure of the werewolf in uniform was entrusted to senior lieutenant Anton Kopaev, and he, under the guise of a businessman from Samara, went to Belushi to establish connections with the organizers of the underground caviar business...