The 19th century is coming to an end. New York, which has already become a universal Babylon, is shocked by a series of hitherto unheard of atrocities. Children are being killed in city slums, and the mutilations inflicted on them are becoming more and more sophisticated from time to time. A certain bloody ritual is being performed, and the police are unable to solve this terrible mystery. Future US President Theodore Roosevelt assembles a group of specialists for whom criminal investigations are as new as for professional detectives. This is how the outstanding alienist psychologist Laszlo Kreizler, the crime reporter of the Times newspaper John Skyler Moore, the first female police officer Sarah Howard and detective sergeants Isaacson brothers - supporters of unconventional methods of investigation - take to the stage. The hunt begins...However, a new evil has already awakened in old America - and no one will be able to survive meeting it face to face. Caleb Carr's novel The Alienist, the most famous historical thriller of the last decade.! The Alienist / Psychiatrist (there is no word “alienist” in Russian)