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The mid-80s of the 20th century. The so-called perestroika begins in the Soviet Union, and the purges at the top. Of the old Politburo members, only the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine V. Shcherbytskyi retained his influence.

The leadership of the USSR State Security Committee decides to appoint its trusted man as the head of the Ninth Service of the KGB of the Ukrainian SSR, which was responsible for the protection of the highest officials of the Ukrainian SSR, who would simultaneously be Moscow's «watchful eye» under the leadership of the republic, especially under V. V. Shcherbytskyi. But he feels trust and respect for the officer who has been leading the service for several years, Colonel Nikolai Khomich Mudry.

Shcherbytsky is using all his influence to defend a trusted man in the Kremlin. Lubyanka is not going to back down and launches an operation to eliminate the colonel.

Meanwhile, N.F. Mudry's son, a two-metre tall dark-haired strongman, a handsome athlete, Volodya, enters the KGB Higher School in Moscow. At the same time, a bloody maniac appears in the capital of the USSR, committing brutal murders and rapes. His victims, who miraculously managed to survive, unanimously describe him as a two-metre tall, dark-haired young man of extraordinary physical strength. The verbal portraits and drawings made from the victims' words closely resemble Vladimir. Will he turn out to be a bloody maniac?

The novel is based on real events that took place in the 80s and 90s in Moscow and Kyiv.

The Russian-language author's version of the novel, entitled & laquo;Hereditary Chekist», was awarded in 2014 with the V.G. Korolenko Prize of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine.