About the book: 2009 / The book by Yu. A. Udovenko - “Through the Looking Glass" - uncompromisingly exposed the scale and depth of corruption “in an individual region." However, a sophisticated and caring reader from other regions will easily recognize in the characters and plot twists of “Through the Looking Glass” the realities of the brutal rampant crime and corruption that have engulfed all the cities and towns of the long-suffering Mother Russia like a cancerous tumor..