The action-packed story “Alien” is the fruit of long thought and personal experience of the author, who has been working in law enforcement for more than ten years. The hero of the book is a criminal investigation officer, also an OBKhSS inspector and, finally, an investigator from the prosecutor's office, Rif Razin, who tries to fight the Soviet mafia alone and dies. The reader witnesses many crimes committed by government officials themselves. Farit Akhnafovich Akhmetov, the author of the story, appears in print as a publicist; the story “Alien” is the author’s first work of fiction.