Alexander Lapin is known to readers for his novel “Russian Cross” - a large-scale saga about a generation, covering the last three critical decades of modern Russian history. In the new novel “Holy Sinners”, the heroes we loved from the last book approach the next milestone in their lives. But “Holy Sinners” is not a traditional sequel in the “twenty years later” genre; here Alexander Lapin dramatically changes the optics, moving the focus from the macro world of events to the world of movements of the restless, suffering, searching human soul. Conducts a confidential conversation with the reader about incredibly complex issues. After all, faith, religion and church are far from identical concepts, and the spiritual search is a multi-vector system: the main world religions, pagan cults, esoteric practices... By placing these quests of the heroes at the center of the novel, the author avoided slipping into didacticism and built an exciting plot, moving from chronicle to parable, from detective story to erotic novel, from social drama to mysticism and ultimately to an unexpected climax. By the will of the author, all the heroes - monk and layman, Christian and pagan, Muslim, Buddhist - will converge in the right place at the right time. How it ends, the reader will find out...