Sergei Dennikov, the hero of the new novel by Nikolai Dezhnev, has an undoubted talent: he easily comes up with various ways to manipulate people, which unscrupulous politicians, media owners, advertisers and other influential public, influencing the minds of the gullible, take advantage of for a generous fee. Russians. As a result of a dramatic turn of the plot, the hero falls into the trap of his own gift... The novel is written evil and witty, in a clear and flexible Russian language, rarely found in our modern literature. Nikolai Borisovich Dezhnev (b. 1946) is a famous Russian prose writer, member of the Writers' Union, author of a dozen novels, one of which, “In Concert Performance,” went through several reprints in Russia, and was also published in the USA, Germany, France, Spain, Holland, Norway, Brazil, Israel and Serbia.