Paul Schumann is an American of German descent, a veteran of the First World War. In both gangster and police circles of New York, he is well known as a killer who masterfully carries out “orders.” And although he basically kills only other killers, the special prosecutor, who has sworn an oath to put an end to organized crime in the city, dreams of putting him in the electric chair. Having fallen into a trap set up by the special service, Schumann receives an offer that he cannot refuse. He must go to Berlin and destroy Reinhard Ernst, the brilliant organizer leading the rearmament of Hitler's Reich. The novel was awarded the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award by the Crime Writers Association. For the first time in Russian!