The Triumph of the Careerist

An astonishing detective story about a crime in the upper echelons of power. The famous expert Drongo investigates a crime where state secrets are kept like nowhere else in the world.

This should not have happened. It simply COULD NOT have... happened! In the building of the Cabinet of Ministers, at his workplace, in broad daylight, the Deputy Prime Minister Mal'tsev has been murdered. A place where no random person could ever enter. Where no one can enter the Deputy Prime Minister's office without approval. Where everything is filled with cameras, where there's plenty of security, where every step is subject to strict regulations.
And yet — it happened. Monstrously. Unexplainably.
Without publicizing the disgraceful information, the murdered man is urgently and solemnly buried. The official version — death from a heart attack.
The Deputy Prime Minister's daughter cannot come to terms with the lie and asks expert Drongo to find the killer. The detective is no stranger to complex investigations. But when federal services responsible for the safety of the nation's top officials and unwilling to be publicized stand in his way, the investigation turns into a delicate, clever, and extremely dangerous game…