About the book: 1973 / The main character of the novel by L. Zhukhovitsky is thirty-year-old journalist Georgy Nespanov. Goshka, the “king of the feuilleton,” as his friends call him, is a born newspaperman. He can stomp on foot through the autumn impassability and sleep anywhere, just to expose the scoundrel and selfish person, just to help an honest man. Happy with his work and successes, Nespanov begins to believe in the infallibility of his own intuition, the infallibility and fairness of his self-writing... But life is multifaceted, complex, full of surprises, and, intervening in it, it is necessary more than once to stop and look back, to check every step you take into someone else’s fate... The “King of the Feuilleton,” a mediator and arbitrator in the inevitable conflicts of life, makes a mistake and finds himself guilty before his own conscience for the death of his only friend Yurka. The author talks about how this tragedy occurred, about the enormous responsibility that lies on the shoulders of journalists, in his novel, densely populated by people of different professions and characters..