Retribution of Baikal

On the frozen shore of Baikal, the body of former American diplomat Edwin Ashford is found, killed with a single professional knife strike. Money and personal belongings are untouched. No traces – nothing. This mysterious crime threatens to escalate into an international scandal as it pits Russian and American intelligence agencies against each other. An independent expert, Drongo – a brilliant analyst with a phenomenal memory – and pragmatic FBI agent Joan Crossman, sent from Washington to oversee the process, are called in to investigate. It becomes clear that everyone who knew Ashford has something to hide: a secret lover turns out to be the wife of the prosecutor, and an ex-spouse is a CIA agent… Untangling the web of infidelities, broken lives, and cold war secrets, investigators try to understand whether this murder was a political act or a long-delayed, terrible revenge for a tragedy thirty years ago, born in a ruthless clash of intelligence agencies…