Long-awaited completion of novel that readers waited two years. The first three books Образцова divided the total drawing of almost 50 000 экз. New volume, continuation, written in the genre of science fiction, saves brandname authorial style, bright атмосферность, enthralling plot with a few culminations, intriguing secrets. And the absolutely exactly prescribed details of soviet epoch pass a spirit and colour of 80th.Thoughtful: if millions of years back some unknown force insignificantly declined Earth from her axis of rotation, on an absolutely small size deleted or approached to a Sun, changed the parameters of gravitation - that life on our planet never was conceived. Probability that a planet by chance occupied so specific parameters, equal to one of 2,04х10390. Т. е. almost to the zero.And you will assert still, that life on our planet was conceived spontaneously?And if nevertheless spontaneously, then who was our civilization thought of by? For what? Out-of-limit for our understanding experiment of some superreason? And when will this experiment make off under the name "humanity", then we all will be simply wiped from a board without track, how the decided equalization is?Leningrad, August, 1984. Sunset of great soviet epoch.Tragic death of one of authoritative representatives criminal world firstly seems suicide, and the terrible circumstances of his death are explained by the attack of sudden madness. But than investigation moves up farther, the anymore emerges oddities, paradoxical riddles and unbelievable events, and a narration gradually embraces space and time from the Large explosion to contemporaneity.This novel behaves to the that remarkable type of fantasy, that is able to give exhaustive answers for the most difficult questions of humanity : who we? for what we? Konstantin Образцов, confessed master of innermost psychological thrillers, worked on him many years, uniting the keen plot of display of nearly all human feeling dignities and vices known to civilization.Roman gives the richest food for reflections about nature of reality, paradoxes of history, limits of human cognition and origin of Universe. Unique mixing of genres, when a classic militia detective suddenly begins to find the signs of булгаковской devilry, and then and quite transformed in science fiction." A single theory proves all, that Standards perfectly writes in different genres. Even in such difficult, to my mind, as fantasy. Most interesting plot, wonderful language, perfectly passed atmosphere of Leningrad 80th. To unstuck it will be impossibly" from reading. it is Olga @of olga _ depeche