About the book: year / The life of a swindler is a constant risk, walking on a blade. Sonya Zolotaya Ruchka, like a bright star, flashed over Russia and Europe, ending her journey at the Vagankovskoye cemetery in Moscow. Not only Odessa knew the godfather of the Odessa “scammers,” who was affectionately called the Pope. Sasha, a science fiction writer, sold batches of simple doll rags instead of rompers. The modest shoemaker Sema, who had never slaughtered even a chicken in his life, kept the toughest city mafiosi at bay. Such people could only appear in “Odessa-Mama”, the very air of which is saturated with the smell of easy money...