The Pharmacy Shooter

Moscow, November 2012. A quiet corporate lawyer named Dmitry Vinogradov walks into the offices of the pharmaceutical company Rigla, greets his colleagues with a polite "Good morning," and opens fire with two shotguns and 230 rounds of ammunition. Six people die; one survives with permanent injuries. Security guards tackle him while he is reloading. Veteran investigator Colonel Volkov - "the Wolfhound" - must reconstruct the mind of a meticulous killer who trained at shooting ranges for months, folded his civilian clothes neatly before the slaughter, posted a manifesto branding humanity "compost" five hours before the first shot, and deliberately spared the one woman he claimed to love. From the ice-cold interrogation to the psychiatric evaluation at the legendary Serbsky Institute and a trial that strips away every layer of his self-mythology, this is the anatomy of Russia's most infamous workplace shooting - and a chilling study of evil that learned to wear glasses and say hello in the elevator. Entry #5 in The Wolfhound Files: true crime narrated by a veteran Russian detective.