A wonderful religion is voodoo. Democratic and politically correct in the extreme. An amazing cult in which everyone can feel like a god. Or, at least, a horse mounted by a deity. Something similar happened to police officer Bill Dembsey, who a few months earlier accidentally shot and killed a Latino street vendor. A spot, a tiny defect in the vitreous of the eye that appeared shortly after the tragic accident, causes Bill to see strange, phantasmagoric, impossible things. What is this - revenge of relatives and friends of the murdered person, a voodoo curse? Or vice versa – rare luck, unexpected luck? A scientist would start a whole study on this matter, bury himself in ancient tomes, but a detective begins a private investigation. During which he learns a lot of interesting things about the “random” victim, and about his fellow cops, and about himself... “Mushka” is a vivid example of modern North American “magical realism”. Lucius Shepard, who lived in Latin America for many years, managed to become saturated with the atmosphere in which Borges, Cortazar, Casares and many of their colleagues grew up. To the best of his ability, the author of "Mushka" transfers the traditions of this literature to his native soil, carefully merging with the traditions of the prose of Hemingway and Fitzgerald, Dick and Zelazny.

For the first time in Russian - a new novel by the outstanding American magical realist Lucius Shepard, author bestsellers "Colonel Rutherford's Colt" and "Valentine".