Writer Viktor Potievsky is the author of famous action-packed books about wild animals: “The Magician Leads the Flock Away”, “The Fire Trap”, “The Laws of the Old Leader” and others, appealing to the rationality and mercy of man. The new novel is about a complex and adventurous life the young man Ignat, half wild in the taiga, and his friend the wolf Lame. Later, having returned to the people, Ignat, already in military reconnaissance, fights the fascists, infiltrates the gang of Ataman Voronoi. The young man's love for the Polish princess Marina ends suddenly and absurdly. The fascination of the plot and the sharp, exciting events distinguish this book by V. Potievsky.