After the death of the famous criminal George Rackley, his student Blaze decides to single-handedly carry out Rackley’s plan - kidnapping a child from a family of millionaires. Now Blaze, holding little Joe hostage, is hiding in the forests of Maine... and the police are getting closer. And “the crime of the century” " turns into a real race against time. The collection also includes the story "Memory", which served as the basis for the novel "Duma-Key".