“Mystery and authority” have long possessed a truly magical power over the minds of our compatriots - the “little ones” of the past and present day. “The Inquisitor” is a grotesque book, written in the genre of a political detective story. She unfolds before the reader a panorama of life in post-Soviet Russia in the 90s, immersed in economic and political chaos. A religious-terrorist organization, the new Holy Secret Inquisition, which has adopted a whole arsenal of bloody means in order to achieve supposedly noble goals, undertakes to establish a new order in the country.