About the book: 2013 / Orphanage residents Pashka Ankudov and Kolka Soot were inseparable. One day, the director of the orphanage - a sadist and a scumbag - cruelly humiliated Pashka. Kolka stood up for his comrade and stabbed the offender with a knife. And the paths of two bosom friends diverged. One ended up in prison, and the second continued to wander around orphanages and distribution centers. After 30 years, the authority of Kopot came to Serpukhov to visit a thief in law nicknamed the Hindu. The Hindu was preparing to retire and wanted to appoint Kopot as his successor. The head of the local police department decided to take advantage of the “change of power” and appropriate the thieves’ common fund. He began a hunt for Kopot, and he would hardly have fought off the seasoned cop if investigator Pavel Ankudov had not come to his aid. The same Pashka - a faithful friend from the orphanage…