2018-2020 are the most dramatic years in the history of new Russia. Secretive, sophisticated preparations began, with the participation of someone else’s “soft power,” for the transition of power in 2024, which threatened to give the country into the hands of Gaidar’s heirs and throw it back to the ever-memorable 90s. In the heat of the race of life, people did not realize that Russia was heading towards a state catastrophe, fraught with the collapse of the country. The novel “Silent Alarm” paints a broad canvas of today's life in Russia, the existence of the authorities and the people, all layers of society - deputies and the elite, rural lower classes and businessmen, bankers, scientists, journalists, the clergy, the generals. And of course, the fierce battle between the Russian and Western intelligence services, which does not subside even during the pandemic. The action-packed dramatic trials that the heroes go through make it possible to understand why the propaganda “breakthrough” and the real “stagnation” turned into a hybrid “downtime”, just a wait for the real deal. And understand how Russia managed to avoid the trap of turning years. Contains obscene language.