About the book: 1996 / It is not easy to define the genre of "Black Cash" by Leonid Mogilev. Detective, psychological adventure story, action thriller, political novel, utopia? The beginning, indeed, is typically detective - the “empty man Alyabyev,” the narrator’s friend, is killed while fishing. Then the chase begins for this artist and the floppy disk, stolen by Alyabyev and thoughtlessly hidden by him in a friend’s apartment. Chases, movements from St. Petersburg to Moscow and back, crossing the Estonian border on thin ice, murders, explosions, surveillance, etc.... Gradual intervention by the intelligence services of Russia and Estonia, and, finally, the story of the city where the legendary commander secretly lives or is being held. Cuban revolution Che Guevara... The action novel “Black Cash” tells about mysterious and sometimes fantastic events. At the same time, these are lyrical narratives that captivate the reader with deep psychologism and subtle insight into the characters’ characters. Nowadays you rarely find a novel where the author managed to successfully combine an exciting plot, dynamism of presentation and dense, transparent language of the text. Leonid Mogilev brilliantly demonstrates all these essential qualities of real literature.