The capital of the fugitives. Svechin N.

College Advisor Lykov guilty before the authorities. The bandits killed in Odessa parents of his assistant Sergei Assedopulo. And he attracted to the search for the murderers of Sergey himself, and did not send to St. Petersburg, as they were ordered. As a punishment, Lykov was sent to the Turukhansky Territory. From there, the shoots of exiles became more frequent; It is necessary to find out how they manage to disappear to run from such a modified place.

Having arrived at the Arctic Circle, the detective finds out that the shoots are put on the stream. And somewhere in the vicinity of Irkutsk, the "Rubiles for the Fugitives" are hidden. In them, the elite of the criminal world sits out, changes its appearance, receives new documents. And when the police stops their searches, the bandits return to large cities.

It is not for nothing that Irkutsk is called the capital of fugitives. Lykov decides to go there in order to find and destroy the stash.