On the cross

Ivano-Frankivsk region homicide investigator Danila Nimak is not like everyone else.He has little interest in everyday life and family. Work is everything to him.And now he is in the epicenter of the incident on the trail of Dovbush. The execution of the elderly teacher from Lvov is obvious to him. With his instinct of an experienced hunter, Danila finds the killer's business card in the mouth of the corpse. He realizes that this is no ordinary murderer.That same day, for some unknown reason, he is removed from the case. However, Danila doesn't stop there. Enlisting the support of the ubiquitous journalist of the main TV channel of Ukraine, Nadezhda Avdeeva, Nimak continues to investigate.Whoever disturbs Danila, tries to incriminate him in a criminal case against himself. In fact, forcing the investigator and the journalist to hide from law enforcement agencies.At one point, when Danila and Nadezhda have a lead to the perpetrator, they are surrounded by law enforcement officers right in the hotel.But, the dodgy Nimak, taking his boss hostage, escapes the chase. The freedom doesn't last long. The KORD fighters take them in, and as it turns out, not to shut them up.Minister of Internal Affairs Avazov meets the couple in the woods at a hunting lodge. The politician offers to continue the investigation and agrees to cooperate with the Belarusian security forces.The couple travels to Belarus to investigate a series of similar murders that began decades ago.But whoever started this game is playing it dashingly.Nimak is accused of a murder that took place in Belarus on the day they crossed the border exactly where they were.It is obvious that everything done in Belarus is known to the Russian secret service. The couple is secretly transported to Moscow.They start beating Danila, at the last moment he spits in the face of the colonel...Avdeeva is tried for illegal crossing of the Russian border. She faces a prison term.But at the trial she is released. Avdeeva is freed at the trial. A flight from Ukraine is sent for her by Avazov.Danila wakes up in the cell of the most famous prison of the federation - Black Dolphin.He is serving a life sentence. Here the living envy the dead. But! Our hero doesn't give up, even here he plans an escape. And paradoxically, he succeeds.Escaping from pursuit, he crosses the border of Kazakhstan. Local patriots help Danila get to the Ukrainian embassy.Danila is reinstated to duty. Nadezhda and the investigator continue to investigate. Eventually, the couple ends up in the village of Belokorovichi, in the Zhytomyr region. They meet with Kutsepalov, and he tells a story of murders dating back to 1947.It turns out that all this is connected with the red-headed enkahedrons. Kutsepalov, aka Churasov, commander of a special punitive detachment. On whose conscience thousands of mutilated, raped, burned, hanged, thrown off cliffs and buried alive patriots of Ivano-Frankovsk region, who fought against any occupation.At some point, Danila's nerves give out listening to this hellish executioner's confession, and he pulls the trigger.Nadezhda and Danila bury the corpse in the woods. They return to the house, and there is an ambush. The killers are waiting for them.The mother, and her two adopted sons. She is the one who avenges her crippled youth. It was Churasov who first raped her, the girl, and then threw her into the abyss. She survived, left for the rest of her life with a disfigured psyche and appearance.Danila and Nadezhda now know everything up close and personal. Who, and why they killed. Such knowledge does not suit the killers.They take the couple for further elimination without trace

Auteur

My Name Sergiy Zhuravlov.Freedom-loving Ukrainian. The main motive of my creations is to give readers and listeners the pleasure of my work in publicist.If it were not for the material, technical, and military assistance of our friends, it is hard to imagine what would have happened to civilization.More than a quarter of Ukraine's enterprises have been destroyed or occupied by Russian invaders. I, like many of my compatriots, have been left jobless. The only hope is on you my grateful readers and listeners, that is urgent the reason I continued more vigorously my writing activity.I hope you will not be too picky about broadcast inaccuracies. I simply have no money for an editor and proofreader. Although, if I have some spare money with your help, I may be able to improve my books.Briefly about myself:I was born on 29. 10. 1958 in Lugansk, Ukraine.Lulled by Soviet propaganda, an am volunteer, sergeant of the 1st class, took part in the liberation of Afghans from insidious imperialismElimination of the Chernobyl accident, 1986 commander of a special company.Gorbachev Perestroika. In 1987, I sent mentally the soviet system and all communists to the afterlife One of the first to engage in free business in the disintegrating empire of rushism.Some things described in my books are based on real events from my life and the lives of my friends and acquaintances.I devote all my leisure time away from work and leisure to socializing, reading, and creating.I love playing hockey. I love fishing. I like windsurfing, yachting, and diving. I like hunting. Not only that, but I like to participate in drag racing. I love my kids, I have three of them. I love my grandchildren, as of today, I have eight of them. I love the Earth and the earthlings. I hate dictatorship and dictators, fascism, racism, and putin's rushism.In the first weeks of rashists attack on Ukraine, as a senior reserve officer, I organized and participated in the territorial defense near Bila Tcerkva, near Kyiv.My motto: Propaganda in any form should be banned. And the main thing is Peace without Borders!To those who read these lines, I express my sincere respect and wish you health and financial well-being.If you have a desire to communicate with me, I will be happy to do so.If you are a native speaker and would like to help me proofread the text, I would be very grateful.My mail:sergiyazhuravlov@gmail.comIf my reader would like to purchase a printed version of my novel, I am ready to send it to you.Because of the barbaric attack of the rashists on my country, Ukraine, my family and I are in a very difficult financial situation. Women and young children are forced to become refugees If you would like to make a donation to support my art and my family.I would be delighted to accept your help.