About the book: 2012 / For a long time, people have been disappearing in a remote corner of the Tver region. Rumor blames a mysterious swamp monster - Hitnik - for their possible death. By the will of fate, a young orientalist Gorislav, searching for a missing friend, is forced to take on the role of a private detective. Around the same time, a major government official, heading a certain Federal Anti-Sectarian Service, turns to Gorislav for help in finding a “mystical” artifact - the Golden Lingam, stolen in one of the states of Indochina and now surfaced in Moscow. However, the search for the artifact very quickly turns into a race for survival.…