Zaza Chichinadze

18 directors, 18 novels, 18 short stories about Moscow...

In present day St. Petersburg, police major Igor Grom, an honest and skilled cop with unconventional methods, pursues a vigilante murderer in the mask of a plague doctor.

A story, which takes place in 2013, describes the world overflowing with "dangerous" criminals due to the official termination of death penalty. The UN "blue helmets" under the directive from the central authority (i.e., One World Government) decided to conduct a social "experiment" by forcibly dumping the outlaws on the deserted island...

Mara Alexandrova is a woman with a complex character and an equally difficult fate. She is desperately fighting for every day that comes. One by one, men change in her life. Having received some support from her: moral, financial, they immediately leave. It hardens her.

Russian paratroopers company meets superior forces of Chechen separatists during raid in mountains and accept uphill battle with no chance to survive.

In the Kaliningrad remand prison, Major Andrei Ryzhov commits suicide, accused of exceeding his authority. Four of his colleagues - Oleg Kaplan, Pavel Karpenko, Oksana Golikova and Fyodor Vachevsky - are confident of the innocence of their former leader and, in order to restore his good name, begin their own investigation of the incident.