The time of the Napoleonic Wars. Her Majesty's warship "Surprise", sailing the Atlantic, was unexpectedly attacked by a huge unknown ship that appeared out of the fog. Thanks to the courage and ingenuity of the crew, the Surprise manages to escape death. Despite heavy damage and losses, Captain Jack Aubrey, nicknamed Lucky, decides to pursue the enemy and sets off on a chase that will take him to the end of the world.

October 1990. Joe Deacon, a middle-aged deputy sheriff nicknamed Deaky, is sent on a minor assignment to Los Angeles. Five years earlier, he was a respected detective there, but one investigation ruined his life and his health. Dickie meets a young, ambitious colleague, Jim Baxter, who is working on a series of murders suspiciously similar to those unsolved five years earlier. Dickie decides to stay on the job, determined to see the case through to the end and track down the killer at any cost.

Having squandered his entire fortune on pleasure, playboy Henry Graham was anxious to find a new source of income. Of all the paths to wealth, he chose the shortest: a lucrative marriage. Marry, and then get rid of his wife, sending her to the afterlife - that was his plan. But ironically, it turned out that a woman scientist, to whom he prepared the role of the victim, working on the problem of immortality ...