A detective story is a literary genre whose plot is based on the investigation of a crime or other incident. The main feature of this genre is that the reader is hidden from the full picture of what is happening: along with the main character - the detective - in the course of the narrative, he gradually learns new and new facts of the crime.
If the work initially knows all the details of the incident, it refers to a police romance. Most Soviet detectives can be called precisely police novels. The heroes of these works are young investigators who, in the process of solving the crime, not only gain professional experience, but also change as individuals.
One of the authors who worked in this genre is Danil Koretsky. Under his name, several dozens of novels, short stories and short stories were published, including the book “Tattooed Skin”.
Writer Biography
Koretsky was born on August 4, 1948 in Russia, the city of Rostov-on-Don. Both of his parents were doctors, but the author never planned to connect his life with medicine. As a child, he dreamed of being a journalist or detective.
Koretsky received his higher education in 1972, graduating from the law faculty of a local university. After that, he worked at the prosecutor's office, later served at the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR, and at the Rostov Law Institute, and held the post of head of the department of criminology and criminal justice.
Koretsky began writing almost immediately after graduating from university, but the first publication took place in 1988. It was the novel “My Circle” from the cycle “Opera Krylov”. One of the author’s most popular books, Tattooed Leather, was released in 2000.
In addition, Koretsky is also engaged in scientific activities: on his account more than two hundred scientific works.
Trilogy
Tattooed Skin was the first book in the Signs of the Wolf trilogy, which also includes Painted (Business Trip Address - Prison) and Trail of the Trail.
The main character is a young man with the surname Volkov. The abstract of Tattooed Skin, dragging on the reader, tells that when he is drafted into the army he enters the special forces brigade, and from that moment on, the guy’s life completely changes. Volkov finally becomes convinced that brute force and the ability to use it is all that is needed to solve any problem.
A few years later, the hero, nicknamed Painted, has nothing to do with himself from the past. On his account, many successfully completed tasks - the arrest of officials, the overthrow of the regime in an African country, the purchase of passports.
The title of the book “Tattooed Skin” was not chosen by chance. The whole body of the Painted is covered with various tattoos. And in the end, these drawings on the skin determined the fate of the former recruit.
Other works
In addition to Tattooed Skin, Daniil Koretsky created many cycles and solo novels, some of which were used to create films and series.
For example, the Rock and Roll near the Kremlin series talks about the CIA operation of the same name recruiting graduates of military schools in Moscow. Then it was not possible to disclose the leaders of the operation, however, decades later, in 2002, workers found a tape recording a recruitment conversation ...