A terrible, almost transcendental story that happened to a famous television journalist almost drives him crazy... A woman who has reached the heights of political Olympus suddenly realizes that she does not owe her success to herself. A series of sophisticated attempts on the owner of a billion-dollar fortune are foiled in the most inexplicable way, but - if you look at it - the fortune itself “fell” into her hands in the most mysterious way. What is this, the whims of providence? A young woman psychologist, who has experienced a serious moral shock, tries alone to heal her soul in the quiet provincial Deauville. An unexpected meeting with one of the founders of NLP turns her whole life upside down. “Games of Puppets” is one of the most mysterious novels by Marina Yudenich. Some will see in it only a psychological detective story with elements of mysticism. But if we take into account the biography of the author, who in the recent past occupied high positions in the Russian government, much more serious conclusions can be drawn...