Analysis of common public idea transformation of the executive authority in the Russian Federation reflected in Russian novels with large circulation from 1999 to 2013 (according to Russian Federal Agency of The Press and Mass Media) is provided. Crime novels are considered a means of identifying and studying the so-called “background knowledge”, i. e. popular ideas of people of norms, laws, country and themselves regarded as inherent elements of their everyday life. Since these books are intended to reach very wide audience, crime literature reflects (and constructs) simplified and generalized ideas of various groups on reality that are perceived by the readers as true to the fact just because they originated in the group that shares these stereotypes. Crime novels are likely to have significant influence on the audience, contributing to the propagation and formation of various ideas of social life what inevitably makes them a prospective source of analysis of common Russian social stereotypes. The executive provides a wide range of opportunities for the dialog of civil society and state authorities regulating social life with normative acts. In cases when state authorities fail to control social life, this prerogative may be overtaken by any groups or structures possessing power, including executive authorities. Analysis of general views on enforcement agencies reflected in the most popular literature genre during the period under study will help to understand the role of the agents of state authority in the post-Soviet society undergoing dramatic transformations during several time intervals and to see if these ideas change in the above mentioned historical period. Thus, this paper aimes at describing the existing views on the State reflected in Russian crime novels and represented by law enforcement agencies and their officers, as well as the notion of “law”. “To serve the law” is the slogan of Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Moreover, the specificity of such kind of literature provides the grounds to compare the views of law and power both inside and outside the Ministry of Internal Affairs, since some authors have personal experience of working in law enforcement agrncies.