Jean-Christophe Granger is a recognized master of the European detective and Thriller, whose high-profile literary fame began with the Thriller "Crimson rivers" (1998), soon brilliantly adapted. The main character-brilliantly played by Jean Reno laconic police officer Pierre Niemann, who has a corrosive analytical mind, but a quarrelsome character, immediately fell in love with the audience. Twenty years later, Granger decided to resurrect the legendary Commissioner in his new novel. In the heart of the black forest, in the Black Forest, the last hunt began. But when the horn sounded, it was not a deer or a boar that was killed, but Jurgen von Geyersberg, a young German nobleman who owned the surrounding land and a huge fortune. The investigation is led by investigators from Germany and France, the famous Commissioner Pierre Niemann plays for the French, as well as his student and colleague Ivana Bogdanovich. Experts have the victim's body at their disposal. But there is no head, no entrails. And no trace. It soon becomes clear to the police that this is just the beginning. An unknown criminal has opened a hunt not only for members of the Geyersberg family, but also for the detectives themselves, and behind the chain of strange murders looms a terrible shadow — the shadow of the beast. For the first time in Russian.