The editor-in-chief of the magazine, Pyotr Basov, and his wife Elena, against their will, find themselves drawn into a provocation that the drug mafia is preparing against the Moscow drug control department. It all starts with Elena's disappearance without a trace from the restaurant where the couple celebrated their wedding anniversary. Heartbroken and confused, Basov tries to look for his wife, but to no avail. And suddenly, he starts receiving messages from his wife on his phone. The essence of the messages boils down to sending Peter as a courier, first to Smolensk, then through Belarus to Odessa, and along the way he must pick up and exchange packages with contents unknown to him. Delving into the style of messages, Petr Basov comes to the conclusion that someone is manipulating him on behalf of Elena, but he cannot understand who it is and why he is doing it. In fact, the messages are prepared by one of the leaders of the criminal world... An action-packed psychological novel. The main idea of the book is to show how amazingly people can sometimes change under the influence of circumstances