About the book: 2017 / “This was not the first time they came here to hunt. It all started quietly and peacefully.” This is exactly how, quietly and peacefully, the new crime novel by Mikhail Mart begins. But then tragedy happens. Chasing a large animal while hunting in the mountains of Abkhazia, two friends: a former special forces soldier, a master of sports in shooting, Gleb, and his much less combative and athletic friend Igor, decide to split up. And by an absurd accident, Gleb kills Igor. Realizing that he cannot avoid prison, he buries the corpse in the forest and hopes to hide the murder. But events take a fatal turn when a corrupt major named Mikhas learns about what happened, who, blackmailing Gleb, tries to turn him into a cold-blooded hired killer. Then the action develops rapidly, like an avalanche coming down from the mountains, which gradually captures more and more new characters: Gleb’s sincere and loving wife, two former clofilin prostitutes Kira and Vera, the keeper of the bandit common fund, the naive Major Voronikhin and the experienced investigator Shklovsky and a huge number of others no less colorful personalities. Treason, violence, blackmail and an endless chain of cruel, bloody and sophisticated murders. Will Gleb be able to find a way out of this deadly whirlpool??