Crocodile Hunting

Every gesture is evidence. 
The Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan.
The mutilated body of sailor Shchepelev from a Russian tourist vessel has been found in the port of Otaru. Why would someone kill a harmless worker scrubbing the deck?
The arriving police major Minamoto learns... from his colleagues that the deceased was a secret informant for the Japanese police and provided information about the import of dangerous illegal cargo from Russia into Japan.
The Otaru police activate their informants, who find out from their contacts in Khabarovsk that a huge international smuggling operation is imminent, and the corpse is just a harbinger of it.
Minamoto boards a tourist vessel at one of the ports where the sailor worked — the killer is still there…

A rare book collaboration between Russians and Japanese in the criminal sphere.
Novels based on real criminal cases of the Hokkaido Prefecture police. Since 1993, the author Eduard Vlasov has been conducting two-week courses in the Russian language for Hokkaido police officers at the Sapporo Police School annually.
The main information contained in these books is from firsthand sources.