About the book: 2004 / Not yet known in the writing world, the young author Alexey Tarasenko offers readers his first work - the anti-mystical utopia "Black Cross". This is a novel in the form of a diary and tells about the unusual everyday life of a Russian officer. Here reality is mixed with incredible fantasy and mysticism. The author tries to look beyond one of the facets of life... The theme of love, which runs like a thin thread through the entire novel, is not forgotten in “Black Cross”. But still, the main intrigue is hidden in the history of the appearance and creation of the black cross - it is up to the reader to decide whether it is a myth or truth.