Equilibrium is a fragile thing, minutes of calm are passing. Commissioner Frank Charcot, when starting the investigation into the murder, did not even suspect that it would go neither much nor little about the survival of mankind. And everything begins relatively harmless: dead swans are found in a reserve in the north of France, in Paris several people get the flu. However, this is not an ordinary autumn surge of the disease, the biological security service of the Pasteur Institute claims that we are talking about a completely new, moreover, artificially bred type of virus. Forensics from Orpheus Embankment, 36, are knocked off their feet. The epidemic is about to engulf the planet, but it is completely unclear whose diabolical plan is behind the dead birds and the chain of strange murders. One thing is clear: the countdown has already been launched, and days, hours, minutes remain to solve the riddle...For the first time in Russian! A new novel from the master of the action genre .