About the book: 2006 / The calling card of this serial killer is a metal token with numbers stamped on it. He attaches it to the bodies of his victims: a six-fingered pimp, the owner of a zoo circus who killed his “artists” in cold blood, a doctor who secretly traded in corpses... The head of the homicide department, Nikita Kolosov, and an employee of the press center of the Internal Affairs Directorate, Katya Petrovskaya, are trying to create a psychological portrait of a maniac... The new crime challenges them to a dead end: popular singer Kirill Bokov, a rising pop star, was killed. And again the notorious badge on the victim’s wrist... Indirect evidence is somehow connected with a private ship that arrived from St. Petersburg to Moscow. On the ship are two famous former rock singers with friends and relatives. But by a strange coincidence, Katya’s husband, Vadim Kravchenko, becomes the bodyguard of one of the rockers…