A warning that the people and events described in this book are completely fictitious, and if they remind anyone of real people and events, then by pure chance, no one will take them seriously, although this is absolutely true. This book is not a psychological novel or a work on a topical topic, but a detective story; It is not real people who are depicted here, but real characters in their extreme manifestations, and this serves the two true purposes of a detective novel: the search for the killer and the pleasure of the reader. If you want to have fun other than closely following the story of the relationship between the cynical editor and the beautiful girl from Zverex, then stop comparing your friends or enemies with the evil geniuses from my book and turn to your own conscience. It is unlikely that you will not find within yourself at least some of these real types - although, perhaps, not in such extreme manifestations. And you don’t have to work in a publishing house