In his new book, Alexey Sherstobitov addresses a plot that will not leave any person, be it a man or a woman, indifferent. The sudden outbreak of love between a female officer and a noble criminal who met by chance is not a new or unique story in the annals of Soviet and Russian journalism and literature. But the author of this book, Lesha Soldat, a legend of the criminal world of the 90s, refracted this eternal plot through the prism of personal feelings, memories and experiences. For the reader, it will remain a mystery to the end - whether everything described happened to the author himself, or whether this novel is entirely the fruit of the talented imagination of the artist of the word. In any case, this mystery will only enhance the reader’s enjoyment of the riot of feelings of the main characters of the book and the criminal, sharp as a Finnish knife action that does not stop throughout the entire story and leaves the reader in tense anticipation of a tragic ending or a happy ending.