About the book: 2021 / The strange, almost painful atmosphere of the seedy St. Petersburg has a detrimental effect on Alexander Borovsky. Life embroils a young man in a series of dark, mysterious events. First, Sasha meets Konstantin Gradatsky, who draws the young man into the epicenter of bloodthirsty investigations, and then the main character himself comes almost face to face with death. The streets of the city are fraught with a lot of sinister things, and the seventeen-year-old Sasha will have to grow up early to cope with their cruelty.