Here, in almost every yard, slaves were kept - completely powerless, humiliated, downtrodden people. Here they did not disdain the most disgusting type of “business” - hostage-taking and extortion of money. Here they liked to torture prisoners, mutilate them, cut off their fingers, and then sent these terrible “souvenirs” to relatives who had to pay a ransom. Here, in the mountain villages of Chechnya, bloodthirsty gangs of Islamists ruled. Former FSB officer Alexei Saltymakov, before freeing his comrade from captivity, had to follow their bloody paths...