Billions of dollars are circulating in this business. In this business, wars invisible to the world never stop for a day. This business is vodka, its production and falsification, sales and use as “currency”. The novel by Arthur Tabolov invites the reader on a journey through the backstage of the vodka business, one of the largest and most criminal in Russia. A successful entrepreneur, owner of a large distillery, the author, like no one else, studied this world from the inside. Having extensive information, he often offers the reader his own version of certain real events - be it the post-Soviet evolution of the alcoholic beverage industry, the bloody Ossetian-Ingush confrontation of the early 90s, or the tragedy of Beslan. The author knows what he is writing about. And this gives his thoughts and conclusions special significance. The cover this time was proposed by the publisher.