The future means new opportunities for everyone. In the galactic cesspool you cannot see where the bureaucrat ends and the pirate begins. Generals on the star frontier steal entire planets, burn evidence with the fire of an atomic explosion, and sell people into slavery along with ships and crews. Just don’t think that they are trying for themselves; This is all at the request of relatives and acquaintances - after all, corporations are very fond of cheap resources and free labor... And the fight against piracy is carried out by the most inveterate state thieves. Inquisitor Augustus McKinby is not interested in such matters, there is federal security for that. But August knows: any day now his assistant Della Berg will get into the dirt. One person died, another went missing - and traces of both were lost where ordinary people do not poke their noses. Della won’t be able to stop: it’s a family matter. She will have to fly to a place where there is no order or law. Or maybe even further, where the danger index is “zero” and the ships are flattened into pancakes. A Russian counterintelligence agent and a Siberian cyborg will go along with Della. A good company if you need to “find and neutralize.”