The Deranged Hero

In the book by the acclaimed master of the detective genre Andrei Badin, two of his gripping novels "The Deranged Hero" and "The Bullet Will Catch Up, or The Colors of the Devil's World" are included. In the first, the... homicide department of MUR is on the trail of a lone murderer who is committing a series of bloody mass shootings and explosions in Moscow. The criminal demands a ransom to stop the atrocities, but the deal falls through, and soon the murderer is arrested. However, he escapes from custody and strikes deadly again... In the second, a monstrous crime occurs - the body of the murdered girl has no internal organs, instead, there is a bracelet with initials. The operatives trace a young, very famous artist, whose paintings exude ominous, mesmerizing power. It seems that the case is solved, but the detectives do not suspect that evil is contagious. And they will have to realize this from their own experience…