Anatoly Afanasyev always has an amazingly accurate sense of time in its main and sometimes terrible manifestations. The new novel “Return from the Darkness” was almost completed when explosions occurred in Manhattan, which changed the picture of the world and seemed to put a terrible, living end to this book. The novel about the same thing, about the blasphemous plans of individual people to force the world to dance to their tune at any cost. The hero of the novel is a young terrorist who, contrary to the will of his mentors, refuses to take on the mission of evil. He puts up fierce resistance to the monsters that gave birth to him and emerges victorious in an unequal struggle...