About the book: 2021 / By this river he became like this. Here, on shores flooded with greed, shame and blood, he will defend not only his name, but also his life. As a child, Adam experienced something that no one should experience. The trauma reshaped the soul, made him different from others, an eternally suspected outcast. Having only miraculously escaped punishment for a murder he did not commit, he disappeared from the small town for five years and disappeared into the gray impersonality of New York. And now he’s suddenly returned. Nobody knows the reasons for his return. But when a new corpse appears, everyone is sure: it is Adam who must answer for this…