About the book: 2018 / Alexander Arkhangelsky - prose writer, TV presenter, publicist. Author of the books “Museum of the Revolution”, “Cutting Price”, “1962. Epistle to Timothy" and others. In his prose, the story of individual characters always unfolds against the backdrop of familiar signs of the times. The new novel “Verification Bureau” is a detective story, a coming-of-age story, a portrait of an era, and the beginning of today’s contradictions. 1980 A mysterious telegram forces graduate student Alexei Nogovitsyn to return from the construction team. The action of the novel takes only nine days, and everything fits into this short period: a love story, religious tossing, watching banned films and interrogations at the KGB. Everything that happens to the hero is not accidental. Someone is testing his strength... Contains obscene language