The work is written in the detective genre with elements of science fiction. The events described in the novel take place in California. Criminal Police Lieutenant Peter Summers investigates a bank robbery at the end of his career. which at first glance seems quite banal - the guard at night commits theft from the vault of a large amount of money He then sends them to his friend and friend........ Back to my office , He commits suicide. [ Numerous examinations indicate the involvement in the crime of only one person - a bank security guard ...... However, a review of the bank's surveillance system records made at the time of the crime leads to the conclusion that the guard was forced to commit theft of money, and then shoot himself. This was done relatively quickly and extremely harshly .. Somehow the will of man was broken in a matter of minutes.