Sergey Valyaev

A Duma deputy and his wife have been murdered. While investigating the crime, Major of Criminal Investigation Anatoly Topol encounters an unusual phenomenon — the so‑called “secret red mercury”. Red mercury has all the properties of a typical synthetic substance, but its energy content is many times greater than that of plutonium. Who is developing this mysterious “weapon” and for what purpose, under conditions of the strictest secrecy? Solving this mystery leads Anatoly to very high levels of power...

After being wounded in Afghanistan, Alexey returned home. While he was at war, his mother married an official of the highest state authority. Having become a casual witness to the preparation of a coup d'etat, Alexey decides to join someone else's game...

The 1970s, USSR. Experienced bodyguard and KGB officer Pavel Selikhov fails to prevent the theft of a unique diamond from the dacha of a high-ranking official. Investigating this strange case leads Pavel to a deeply conspiratorial criminal network, the threads of which stretch to the very top. The further he goes in his search, the more strange deaths and unexpected events occur around him. The bodyguard has learned too much and must be eliminated, but Selikhov will not become a pawn in the dirty game of those in power.

A chance meeting between the main characters takes place at the train station at the moment of seeing their families off on vacation. And love! But three weeks fly by like a blink of an eye. The wife and daughter return to Pasha, the husband and son - to Masha. What to do?

Retired General Pelevin has nothing left but a small piece of ancestral land, granted to his forefathers by the royal family long ago. But now even this last possession is under threat — targeted for the construction of an ultra-modern shopping center. Mafia networks, in collusion with a corrupt local prefect, trick the general into going on an overseas tourist trip, and in his absence, they move a city landfill onto his property.

A hunt for the money belong to the Communist Party is going ahead and takes victim after victim...