The Arctic City of Murmansk, early in the new century. Murder and corruption are the everyday staples of life in a city of permanent winter night. Inspector Constantin Vadim battles against the tide of evil that threatens to overwhelm his hometown.
But one day the evil outside comes to visit. His wife Natalya vanishes. What has happened to her: is it an accident, a lover, an abduction? None of his police skills are any use to Vadim now, only the dark power of Russian myth and prophecy will help him as he confronts a criminal mind that is part genius, part psychopathically deranged.
