About the book: 2021 / ...Kharkov, 1950. The country is simultaneously in a fever from a new wave of repression and from hatred of the “West, which soullessly infringes on the freedom of its workers.” “They will clean up!” - the wisest prophesy, reading the latest government decrees. “If only there was no war!” - the rest wave it off, turning on the radio louder, broadcasting about the tremendous pace of socialist construction. There is devastation all around, fear in our hearts, and selfless devotion to the ideas of communism on our faces. But not everyone - there are those who, in essence, have nothing to lose and do not need to pretend. Vladimir Morskoy - a former journalist and theater critic, and now a “bourgeois cosmopolitan” fired from everywhere - is convinced that all the worst has already happened to him and Ahead of him awaits, albeit aimless, but a calm and measured life. He does not even suspect that near a fashionable city landmark - the same “Glass Jet”, which will later become a symbol of Kharkov and will be called “Mirror” - he will have to meet with the killer. Morskoy, of course, also does not intend to get involved in any investigation. But you have to…