Russian Booker winner Anatoly Azolsky is often compared to Graham Greene. The writer's works, as a rule, are distinguished by a complex, adventurous plot. Many of them have earned high literary awards; films are made based on them, which become bestsellers. However, for Azolsky, the “action-packed” is not an end in itself, but a means to reveal as clearly as possible the character traits of the heroes - extraordinary and proud people defending their inner freedom in a clash with a ruthless totalitarian reality.