Hellish Goldmine

In these dreadful places live only exiles. Well, not live. Survive. Fierce climate, taiga, full of hungry predators. Harsh laws based on the law of the strong. And into this earthly hell goes the outstanding St. Petersburg detective Alexey Nikolaevich Lykov. He is tasked with finding a lost village in the mountains that is not marked on any map. But behind it looms a trail of bad, very unpleasant rumors. They say people disappear without a trace in the village – up to fifty a year. They go there – and that's it. No trace. But what is completely baffling: suddenly, Lykov's ally becomes the godfather of St. Petersburg crime, the "Russian Professor Moriarty" Illarion Rudaitis, nicknamed Sorokoum. This devil in flesh promised the detective any help and money, just to reach the mysterious place and find there Sorokoum's brother Mikhail…