The novel “The Ant God” is written about the collective responsibility of humanity for all local tragedies, wars, misfortunes and disasters, regardless of nationality and religion. The action of the novel develops in two parallel planes: in real time and space we follow the tragic fate of the Russian the boy Zhenya, the son of a military pilot and a modest Baptist evangelist. The beginning of the hero's life coincided with the beginning of the Afghan war, in Uzbekistan, at a small airfield near ancient Khiva. A family tragedy forces him and his father to leave for Western Siberia, to Nizhnevartovsk, but here the circumstances of what happened earlier are clarified and this leads to the death of his father. Zhenya’s almost unreal return to Uzbekistan, where his father served, ends with the hijacking of a combat helicopter and Zhenya’s transfer to the Muslim world. But even here, the real actions of people diverge from the commandments of the Holy Books - drug and arms dealers sell Zhenka to a rich Pashtun. Zhenya is taken to Afghanistan, where he is miraculously saved from medieval slavery at a strange American research base. It would seem that the boy has found reliable and strong friends - he is sent to the USA, to a rich family. The American paradise does not last long; it soon becomes clear that he was sent to the USA as a living donor for the seriously ill son of his new patrons. Zhenya flees paradise and finds himself among illegal Muslim emigration in Brooklyn. Everything he has experienced makes Zhenya hate people and he finds himself at the controls of a plane that rams one of the towers of the World Trade Center...