Across France, and then throughout Europe, the police are finding the corpses of brutally tortured people who have been dying for a very long time. Each crime scene is marked with the same mysterious sign, but it is clear that different people committed the murders. What's happening? Are there a killer and his imitators at work? Is there some kind of connection between cruel anonymous people, driven by an irresistible, primitive instinct of a predator? Perhaps they are sending signals to each other? And where will the tragedy happen next? Perhaps we would sleep more peacefully at night if we didn’t know... Maxime Chattam’s detective thrillers and noirs sell millions of copies in France alone and have become bestsellers in another two dozen countries. Fans of Jean-Christophe Grange and Frank Tillier can't help but appreciate these tightly twisted novels, in which events rush at full speed from the first lines to an absolutely stunning finale and none of the characters escape with minor bruises. “I’m very glad that I managed to traumatize you,” Maxime Chattam tells us and hardly jokes: in the novel “Union of Predators,” the first in his series about incredible crimes that the Paris Investigation Department has to solve, the abysses of evil are revealed. For the first time in Russian!