The novel “Obsessed with War” is the result of many years of observation and reflection on the fate of those whose biography was affected by the war in Afghanistan. The author himself served in the DRA from 1983 to 1985. The basis of the novel is made up of reliable stories that actually happened to the author and his acquaintances. Different storylines are combined into a detective-adventure story, the central character of which is the sinister manipulator of human consciousness, Professor Bellerman, who conducts deeply secret experiments on people, the purpose of which is the final enslavement and dehumanization of man. The fictional figure of V. Ya. Bellerman and other employees of the secret 13th department of the KGB has several real prototypes. The activities of this group of people are also a reliable historical fact. The novel has several historical plans, touches on the stories of the family clans of the main characters, whose historical destinies are intertwined in close combat that continues for many centuries, and raises serious political, historiosophical and cultural problems. One of the main ideas, which the author himself considers to be the main one in his literary brainchild, is the idea of the need to eliminate the interfaith confrontation between Christians, pagans, Muslims and Jews, rooted for centuries - a contradiction that does not reflect the ideological essence of religious ideas, but is the basis of wars and human tragedies.