Nikola Tesla. The personality of a person sealed with the label “he is a genius” loses volume and truthfulness and turns into a paragraph from a school textbook. His life, no matter how bright it may be, turns out to be locked in a boring list of “One Hundred Greatest ... (insert as appropriate) of the 20th century.” But if it becomes the object of the creative attention of a talented writer, Man comes to life before our eyes. An outstanding physicist-inventor who defeated Edison in the hundred-year “war of currents,” the paranoid and visionary Nikola Tesla seems to be stretched between two worlds. The unbearable everyday world, where for the sake of peace, a hotel room must certainly be a multiple of three, and the fear of germs leads to panic, and the world of its inventions, full of formulas, electricity, dangerous experiments and complex machines. In this world, Tesla is visited by a mysterious muse, a woman named Karina, whose appearance is accompanied by flashes of white light and brings a wave of new insights. Who is she? A figment of the imagination, the ghost of his tragically deceased beloved, a real person? The novel “Nikola Tesla” is compared to the works of Dostoevsky in its depth and psychological content, and in terms of intensity of intrigue - with the spy thrillers of John Le Carré...