“A brick will never fall on anyone’s head for no reason at all,” said a famous character from M. Bulgakov’s novel “The Master and Margarita.” Unfortunately, the hero of the novel “Silver Bullet,” Alexei Bogdanov, either did not read the great work, or did not attach importance to the deep thought contained in the above saying. True, it was not a brick that fell on his head, but a crow shot from a sniper rifle... Nevertheless, the heavily mystical events that followed this incident changed the guy’s fate, forcing him to balance on the brink of life and death.