There is no need to travel far away to experience exciting adventures. The employees of an ordinary Warsaw institution experience them in abundance (“Les”), and the reader follows the unexpected turns of the plot with unflagging interest, sincerely wishing the handsome hero of the novel Les and his colleagues success in their noble cause. The heroine of “The Romance of the Century”, by the will of circumstances, finds herself drawn in into a big scam. The intricacies of the plot and the unusual love story, intertwined with the detective story, keep the reader in suspense, and the heroine of the novel, Ioanna, the author’s “I” of the writer, never loses her sense of humor, as well as self-irony, no matter what difficult situations she finds herself in.

Artist N. Bugoslavskaya.