“The Midday Demon” is a fascinating story about an orphaned young man, John Polovinkin, who was born in the USSR, raised in the USA by adoptive parents and returned to his homeland in August 1991, at the most dramatic moment in our history. Due to the mysterious circumstances of John's birth, dark and light forces are fighting for him, the KGB general and the holy fool Tikhon, the police captain Sokolov and the mystic Freemason Virsky... A family and adventure novel, a mystical and love story, a fascinating detective story and a political thriller are skillfully woven into a real Russian novel in its classical sense.