Andrey Rubanov is the author of the books “Plant and it will grow”, “Shameful feats”, “Psychedelic”, “Prepare for war” and others. Finalist of the “National Bestseller” and “Big Book” awards. The main character of the novel “Patriot” Sergei Znaev is an eccentric businessman, formerly a successful “new” banker, now bankrupt. His current reality is debts, quarrels with old friends, memories... Suddenly a son is discovered, whose existence he did not even know existed. Sergei consoles himself with the thought that one fine day he will go to war, where “everything is serious,” but instead he finds himself on another part of the world... The book contains obscene language.