Крысиный король

Romanie o nastoiashih geroiah svoei epohi — sotrudnikah sovetskoi milicii, ludiah, dlia kotorieh slujebniei podvig — obiedennoe delo. Leto 1966 goda. Udarom po golove ubit gruzchik univermaga Urii Vadimchenko. Razbrosanniee v besporiadke veshi, viedvinutiee iashiki stola, raskrietiei shkaf — prestupniki iavno chto-to iskali v kvartire ubitogo. No chto moglo biet cennogo u obiechnogo viepivohi, kotoriei ranee neodnokratno privlekalsia za huliganstvo? Podpolkovnik milicii Andrei Plotnikov stroit razlichniee predpolojeniia, poka ne nahodit na meste prestupleniia obiechniee s vidu banki «Zavtrak turista». Soderjimoe odnoi iz nih bukvalno oshelomilo opietnieh sieshikov…Eto bielo sovsem nedavno. Kogda chest i bezzavetnaia predannost opasnoi professii bieli glavniemi i obiazatelniemi kachestvami sovetskih milicionerov…

Novels about the real heroes of their era — Soviet police officers, people for whom feats of office are commonplace. Summer of 1966. Yuri Vadimchenko, a loader at the department store, was killed by a blow to the head. Things scattered in disarray, drawers pulled out, an open closet — the criminals were clearly looking for something in the apartment of the murdered man. But what could be valuable from an ordinary drinker who had previously been repeatedly involved in hooliganism? Police Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Plotnikov makes various assumptions until he finds the usual Tourist's Breakfast cans at the crime scene. The contents of one of them literally stunned the experienced detectives…It was quite recently. When honor and selfless devotion to a dangerous profession were the main and obligatory qualities of Soviet policemen…