Today Anatoly Afanasyev is one of the most popular modern writers... His books are taken to read on vacation somewhere in Nice or the Bahamas by living characters from his writings. The satiated “new Russians,” lying on the golden sand, masochistically read about their own diabolical deeds... Afanasyev loves the grotesque, loves burlesque with phantasmagoric heroes... His striking irony shocks the reader. In the new novel “Past the Money,” the writer enters into battle with a satanic way of life, invades a terrible and vile world, like hydrocyanic acid, in which it is impossible for the living to survive...