"Death is what I'm after.... Jack McAvoy is not a crime reporter, and he needs the armor of cynicism, but the tragic death of his brother, a police detective, punches a hole in it. According to the official version, the brother shot himself because of the unsolved case. But Jack does not believe in the version of suicide, although all the evidence is available, even a suicide note. He begins his own investigation and soon discovers a series of cases when a police officer shot himself in the forehead due to a fatal failure in the service. And each left a note - with a quote from the poems of the mystic poet Edgar Allan Poe.