Rita Sotnikova succeeds in everything in life. As a young girl, she comes to the school of young journalists, and her first big article brings her fame and the respect of her colleagues. Rita is very pretty, independent and witty, she skillfully uses men solely as a springboard to climb the career ladder. Having become the mistress of an elderly media tycoon, Rita finds herself at the center of the city’s cultural life, surrounded by local and metropolitan celebrities. She flies forward without knowing any obstacles, because her weapons are impeccable - the brilliant talent of a journalist and the inimitable female attractiveness. She easily walks over heads and gets away with everything. This continues until the director of the gun store presents her with a ladies' pistol for an excellent article. By a fateful coincidence, it is on this day that Rita Sotnikova gets into the car with the criminal... All readers note the ease of Arkady Arno’s language, the dynamism of the plot, but most of all, the bright female images that he is especially good at. This is exactly the heroine of the novel “Queen of the Mountain” - the talented journalist Rita Sotnikova, who must go through fire, water and copper pipes, be thrown out of paradise and overcome all the circles of hell before she sees such a long-awaited light far ahead... Writer Arkady Arno works almost in all literary genres: this is a historical novel, detective story, adventure novel, adventure and love story, psychological, fantasy, thriller, biography of famous historical figures, presented in the language of fiction, and even a hoax novel. If he takes on a historical novel, he can easily send his reader to any era - be it antiquity, the early or late Middle Ages, modern times or the 19th century. And if it is a detective story, fantasy or mysticism, then the author is looking for unpredictable plots and solutions, but at the forefront is always the confrontation between good and evil, the struggle of a hero in shining armor and an evil genius, and, of course, the love of a man and a woman, without which there is no world would not exist.