In a shabby basement of an apartment building in an emigrant district of New York, a man says goodbye to weapons forever. The goal has been achieved. Let it be through blood, crime, the destruction of certain moral barriers. All that remains is to leave your disgusted, poor home and, stepping over the past, ascend in the cabin of an airliner to a new life... But what you have lived does not let you go. It intertwined everything that the country abandoned by man lived with - love and hate, comrades and enemies, wars and peacetime, crimes and exploits, honor and dishonor... What uncompromisingly breaks a person, the criminal world or a bloody war? Where does betrayal begin? What is the crime and is punishment inevitable?... The author tried to answer these questions in the novel “Only a Demon at Night...”