About the book: 2017 / Sasha Filipenko got his own reader immediately - after the success of “Former Son” and the next two novels. “Bullying,” published by Znamen even before the book’s release, according to the electronic portal “Magazine Hall,” became the most popular text in all Russian thick literary magazines in 2016. This means that the reader understands what to expect from the Red Cross. He will not be deceived: the novel also contains a shocking, on the verge of plausibility, story of a young hero; and a plot compressed like a spring; and the cinematic transition of times; and a paradoxical ending. But there is also news: all this signature Sasha’s “fiction” is completely overwhelmed by the documentary series he obtained and introduced into the novel - the history of contacts between the People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs of the USSR and the International Red Cross during the war years. Sasha Filipenko is a master of creating mood with associative montage. Introducing the “Red Cross” to the reader, we will use his technique and quote Joseph Brodsky: “Children come from love. / You are now alone in the world. / Do you remember the song that I used to sing / in the dark? / This is a cat, this is a mouse. / This is a camp, this is a tower. / This is the time to quietly / kill mom and dad».