Moscow, January. A janitor in the Altufyevo district finds a heavy bag by the dumpsters. Inside — a body preserved by the bitter frost. A corpse in a bag means premeditation. Someone killed deliberately and tried to make the evidence vanish. The Wolfhound follows the trail through Moscow's frozen streets into a web of personal connections where trust turned fatal. Forensic precision and decades of experience dismantle every lie. Entry #2 in The Wolfhound Files series.

A cab driver vanishes on a Friday night in Tver. His car drops off the grid, his phone goes dead. Investigator Yurich — a seasoned bloodhound of the criminal division — picks up the case. What starts as a routine missing persons report spirals into a dark trail of violence, deception, and buried secrets. Based on real events from the Wolfhound Archives.

Saint Petersburg, November 2019. A respected university historian and Chevalier of the Legion of Honor is pulled from the icy Moika River clutching a backpack filled with human remains. A veteran investigator uncovers the gruesome truth behind a decorated professor's double life — years of abuse hidden behind academic prestige, a murdered graduate student, and a narcissist who believed the laws of man did not apply to him. As the case dismantles the myth of genius excusing violence, the de...

December 24, 2018, Moscow. Irina Akhmatova — a twenty-nine-year-old restaurant manager, wife, and mother — vanishes after arranging a ride through BlaBlaCar. The investigator discovers that three separate accounts on the platform, each with a different name and phone number, all trace back to a single device and a single IP address. Highway cameras track the suspect's car across hundreds of kilometers, digital forensics strip away every alias, and a coordinated arrest in Vladimir brings th...

Samara, November 2014. A twenty-two-year-old woman drives out in her white Hyundai and disappears. Her phone goes dead. Then fake messages start arriving — someone pretending to be her. The Wolfhound traces digital breadcrumbs through her social circle and uncovers a devastating betrayal: the killer wasn't a stranger. It was someone Viktoria trusted completely. A gripping first-person account of a real missing persons case that became a murder investigation — and a reminder that the most d...

Everything is Normal offers a lighthearted worm’s-eye-view of the USSR through the middle-class Soviet childhood of a nerdy boy in the 1970s and ’80s. A relatable journey into the world of the late-days Soviet Union, Everything is Normal is both a memoir and a social history—a reflection on the mundane deprivations and existential terrors of day-to-day life in Leningrad in the decades preceding the collapse of the USSR.Sergey Grechishkin’s world is strikingly diff...

“Vita Nostra” — a cross between Lev Grossman’s “The Magicians” and Elizabeth Kostova’s “The Historian” [...] is the anti-Harry Potter you didn’t know you wanted.” — The Washington Post“Vita Nostra has become a powerful influence on my own writing. It’s a book that has the potential to become a modern classic of its genre, and I couldn’t be more excited to see it get the global audience in English it so richly deserves.” — Lev GrossmanBest Books of November 2018 — Paste Maga...

What would it feel like To Run the World? The Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. In this panoramic new history of the conflict that defined the postwar era, Sergey Radchenko provides an unprecedented deep dive into the psychology of the Kremlin's decision-making. He reveals how the Soviet struggle with the United States and China reflected its irreconcilable ambitions as a self-proclaimed superpower and the leader of global revolution. This tension drove Sovie...

Master Vulkan 1.3 with practical recipes for building, rendering, and optimizing stunning 3D graphics, guided by AR and rendering experts Sergey Kosarevsky and Alexey Medvedev Free with your book: DRM-free PDF version + access to Packt's next-gen Reader\*Key FeaturesLearn to harness Vulkan 1.3 for building high-performance applicationsIntegrate cutting-edge rendering techniques into a real-time 3D engineUse bindless Vulkan to render complex 3D ...

SLAV DEFENCE AND QUEEN’S GAMBIT — VOLUME 1250 Real Games · 750 Training Positions · 1,000 Chess Diagrams · 3,000 Training Moves · Stockfish 18 VerificationA comprehensive professional chess training volume by International Master Sergey Germanovich Kolesnyak, developed within the educational framework of the Higher School of Grandmasters and World Champions.This book presents a systematic study of two fundamental opening systems from B...

In Perseus is the second part of the epic trilogy Men Like Gods. A powerful fleet of Earthlings sets off to the Perseus star cluster to deal with the Destroyers - a biomechanical race that has mastered the art of manipulating gravitational fields. Perseus, hidden behind orbital bastions with powerful weapons, also houses a highly evolved race of Galacts who seem to be Earth's natural allies.Will humans be able to cope with this powerful enemy? Can the fleet crews ...

Built from 64 real games by Mikhail Botvinnik, this volume transforms historical chess material into a structured training system focused on the connection between opening structure, middlegame planning, and practical decision-making.The book contains 64 training fragments, 192 key positions, and 768 Botvinnik moves. Fifty-one fragments are studied from Botvinnik's side as White and thirteen from his side as Black. Each game is organized around three linked stages — Preparation, Key...