How to help a friend of your youth who is in dangerous trouble? After all, contact with him was severed many years ago after an unfortunate incident. But at stake is a person’s fate, and maybe even life. Could a retired police colonel, responding to a call for help, imagine that he would find himself in the center of events that do not fit into the concepts of common sense? A series of murders, dangerous chases, the release of hostages, deductive calculations - This is the rapidly unfolding storyline of the novel. And also – the diversity of judgments and the metamorphosis of life principles. And all this is imbued with love of life, irony and humor. Cover author S. Kachurenko.