The life of retired FSB lieutenant colonel Arkady Lavrentsov is crumbling before his eyes: his father died, his business collapsed, his wife left, and an addiction to alcohol appeared. In addition, news arrived about the murder of his best friend... Once raising his business, Arkady did a good deed for the psychotherapist Frolov, and he promised to thank him on occasion. Desperate, the former counterintelligence officer calls him and... soon realizes that all previous troubles were nothing compared to the new nightmare. What is this - a series of strange coincidences or an experiment by the brilliant Frolov, who developed the “theory of brutal resuscitation”? The story was published by the Eksmo publishing house in 2002. The author's title of the story is “The Theory of Brutal Resuscitation”