Zimnee utro 2000 goda? Utro, kogda na tixoj moskovskoj ulice bylo soversheno pokushenie na odnogo iz krupnejshix chinovnikov nashej strany? Delo ruk kogo-to, komu nevygodna professionalnaya deyatelnost poterpevshego? Popytka ubrat cheloveka, ot kotorogo zaviseli sudby slishkom mnogix krupnyx kompanij? Vozmozhno. Po krajnej mere, takovy oficialnye versii rassledovaniya. No mozhet, eto - zhenskaya mest krasavicy avantyuristki, vyrosshej v mafioznom klane?.. Aleksandr Tureckij nachinaet sobstvennoe rassledovanie dela - i ochen skoro ponimaet, chto samye ochevidnye fakty zdes - daleko ne stol ochevidny, skol kazhutsya, a samye neoproverzhimye uliki - daleko ne tak neoproverzhimy, kak vyglyadyat!..
Friedrich Neznansky (Russian: Фридрих Евсеевич Незнанский; born September 27, 1932 in Rahachow Raion, Belarus) was a popular Russian crime novelist. He was a lawyer by education, practiced law in Moscow, and was an investigator at the Moscow Prosecutor General’s office for fifteen years; his hero in most of his books, Aleksandr Turetsky, reflects that experience. Turetsky is a flawed hero—he has a straying eye. However, he always catches the crooks. Although Neznansky’s crime novels are light fiction, the political and social currents of the day can be sensed in them, as well as everyday Russian realities. Several of his books have been televised.