About the book: 2024 / An acute detective story develops within the walls of the Leningrad Research Institute in 1991 against the backdrop of political reforms, inflation, the State Emergency Committee putsch, general confusion, unemployment and impoverishment tens of thousands of engineering workers. The rules of survival of the urban intelligentsia in the new capitalist Russia, woven into an exciting storyline, will not leave indifferent everyone who remembers the events of the 90s of the last century.