The novel “A Very Brave Man” continues the series of investigations by Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. This charming character was created by the pen of Louise Penny, the only five-time Agatha Christie Award winner in the world. “Today is Armand Gamache’s first day with the Quebec police, where he returned after a nine-month suspension that followed a series of rash, disastrous decisions,” detractors write on Twitter - no, Gamache’s obvious enemies. Nevertheless, the police know: he is the best. He knows how to act desperately daring, risky and, despite what they say in tweets, extremely effective. These are the decisions that are required from the senior inspector by the events that befall him on his first day of work. A young pregnant woman has gone missing, and he takes on the investigation, feeling deep (and perhaps irrational) sympathy for her father, because the inspector also has an adult daughter! Meanwhile, Quebec is facing spring flooding of epic proportions. An impending disaster always brings chaos with it, and Armand Gamache tries to resist it. Should he postpone the search for the missing woman, as his brother-in-law, also a senior police inspector, believes, and deal with more pressing issues in the face of a natural disaster? No. “The battle can be won on one front,” Gamache declares. “But the war is won by many.” The ice on the rivers has already broken, bridge supports are cracking, a video has been launched on the Internet discrediting the honor of Armand Gamache... Will he have time to win his war? For the first time in Russian!