“Death is what I hunt for. She is the one who helps me earn a living...” Jack McAvoy is not showing off at all; He is a crime reporter, and he needs the armor of cynicism, but the tragic death of his brother, a police detective, makes a hole in it. According to the official version, the brother shot himself because of an unsolved case. But Jack does not believe in the version of suicide, although all the evidence is there, even the suicide note. He begins his own investigation and soon discovers a whole series of cases in which a police officer shot himself in the forehead due to a fatal failure in the service. And everyone left a note - with a quote from the poems of the mystic poet Edgar Allan Poe...