Anatoliy Vasilev

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 the liberation of Auschwitz, an Italian prisoner of War begins a torturous voyage home to Turin, through a Europe caught between war and peace.

For several months, the investigation into the robbery of the cashier in the village of Airport. Assistants to the chief of criminal investigation department Mironov managed to find the direct traces leading to the thief-the recidivist Panasyuk serving sentence in a colony for small theft.

Katya and her husband Alexey had a quiet normal life until the picture of Katya suddenly made a magazine front cover.

Misha, a cheerful and inexhaustible six-year-old prodigy, blows up a kindergarten as a result of another experiment. He is truly upset only by the lack of attention of his parents, who are on the verge of divorce. Right on New Year's Eve, Misha suddenly becomes the hero of a fantastic story: he is kidnapped. The hapless kidnappers expect to get a ransom for the boy, but they do not even suspect what kind of child fell into their hands. The tragicomic nature of the situation is complicated by the fact that another "mysterious force" enters the struggle for the boy, trying to "outsmart" and take advantage of his unusual abilities...