About the book: 2019 / “The Yellow Devil” is an explosive three-volume mixture of avant-garde, agitation, detective, spy and adventure novel, designed to give a wide panorama of the Civil War in Far East. In addition to fictitious persons, it also features very real characters, from Baron Ungern and Ataman Semenov to the American commander Grevs and the Japanese General Ooi, the Red commanders S. Lazo and Y. Tryapitsyn and others, and the action unfolds with dizzying speed over a vast space from Siberia to China and Japan. This remarkable novel remained inaccessible to readers for many decades. The authors who made up the writing duo “Nicked Mat”, futurist poet V. Mart (1896–1937) and prose writer, poet, essayist and former “red partisan” N. Kostarev (1893–1941?), disappeared in Stalin’s dungeons, and “ The Yellow Devil" was banned. But both during the “perestroika” and post-Soviet years, the novel was never reprinted…