Woody Bookman, having lived for eleven years, never uttered a word. Even when my father died in a helicopter crash. Even when his mother, Megan, told her son that she loved him more than anything in the world. Woody is sure that behind the death of his father there is an evil - monstrous, irreconcilable, merciless - and this evil now threatens both him and his mother. He's not the only one who has these feelings. An ally unknown to him listens to the boy's thoughts. Kipp, a dog endowed with reason and devoted to people to the point of selflessness, hears Woody and understands that he must be found before it is too late. The boy’s most terrible suspicions take shape. A man driven by sophisticated evil is on the trail of Woody and his mother. And this man is not alone. And only a force more powerful than evil itself can prevent tragedy... The novel is published in Russian for the first time!