About the book: year / This story is an attempt to show the detective system that existed in the USSR in the 70s of the last century. Despite some negativity, inherent in that time, there was also a lot of positive things, in particular in the work of law enforcement agencies and intelligence services, which is lost and what is missing in our turbulent times. People with different destinies, characters and beliefs lived and worked in that society. Each of them contributed to the strengthening or decomposition (and sometimes both) of this complex instrument of power. But, despite this, the detective system existed and worked very effectively. Until it was thoughtlessly destroyed in a drunken stupor of the 90s. The book is largely based on real events. Before you is the first part of a trilogy that the authors are working on.