A well-known journalist is assassinated during the presidential campaign in Poland. The media pushes the narrative of Russian interference in the country's internal affairs, in order to support Silesian separatists and destabilize the situation. From a small spark, a geopolitical conflagration is ignited, capable of causing enormous damage.
Anatoly Lunin is a former clinical psychologist, and now a consultant in the operational investigation group on high-profile crimes. A unique method based on the peculiarities of his psyche helps Lunin solve crimes. He can get used to the role of the criminal, literally get into his head, and restore his motives. Anatoly knows that his abilities are a mental illness that he has to hide. His boss, Colonel Pokrasov and journalist Drapova seek to expose the hero, but Lunin is saved by the intercession of the high authorities — General Mordvinov. Anatoly has a difficult relationship with his colleague, a full—time criminologist psychologist Arina Solodovnikova. However, with each new case, her opinion about him changes — Arina is convinced of Lunin's professionalism and unusual talent.
After the death of Alexey Gradov, the owner of a large construction holding company, his heirs enter into a struggle for a billion-dollar fortune with a former official and business partner of the deceased. On the family side, the war is led by Gradov Sr., the patriarch of the family, who founded the family business in the 90s, but retired. As an ally, he takes the financier and strategist of the company Nadezhda, who was not only a colleague, but also his son's mistress. In addition to the redistribution of assets, the Gradovs — wives, children, grandchildren — are busy identifying old grievances and accumulated claims against each other. They have everything—money, power, connections, status. But that's not enough for them. In the pursuit of inheritance, they are ready to tear apart not only the enemies of the family, but also each other.
Andrey Rybin, a talented analyst, works for the FSB in the department for combating organized crime and corruption. He is going to retire in order to finally relax and spend more time with his wife, adult daughter and beloved dog. Suddenly, a former CIA officer, Donovan, comes out to Rybin. Twenty-five years ago, he introduced an illegal intelligence officer, Rybin, to Russia and now demands fulfillment of his obligations. However, Rybin understands that Russia has become his native country, and now it is she, and not distant America, who is his Homeland, which needs to be protected and protected.
Future. People have the opportunity to choose in which of the worlds to live — in the real or in the virtual. In an alternate reality called the Darknet, there is everything — drugs, sex, arms and human trafficking, and even death. However, even in this world, people remain themselves, with their values and weaknesses.
Alexander Maximov is a brilliant psychologist and the best negotiator in Russia. But even an ideal, it would seem, employee makes mistakes. In the past, while negotiating with the terrorists who had taken over the school, Maximov suffers a defeat when his daughter is killed. Unable to look his wife and son in the eyes, Alexander leaves the family. Years later the hero again faces the perpetrator of that tragedy - it turns out that during an explosion at that school the intruder did not die and now throws Maksimov a new challenge.
In the center of the story is the story of two people. He is the conductor of the famous symphony orchestra, giving a concert at a Russian military base. She is a journalist who came to make a report from the scene. From the first minutes of meeting them, feelings flare up, but their first romantic evening in a distant foreign country becomes the only one and completely changes their life. The hotel is captured by terrorists. For the main characters begins a real hunt. The only hope for salvation is the ex-husband of a journalist. Only now, the recently separated spouses have a tough and insoluble conflict. Now the fate of the heroes is in the hands of the one who always dreamed of revenge.
Tired of the image of a merry man and a buffoon, Vladimir Marconi decides to leave the career of a successful showman and tries himself in the popular genre of investigative journalism.
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