Can a person change completely? The most obsessed Edinburgh guy we've known for a long time has seemingly settled down: he now lives in California with his beautiful wife and two little daughters, has become a successful sculptor, and his work is in great demand. But then a message comes from Edinburgh that his eldest son has been killed, and Begbie flies out to the funeral. He didn’t want to act as a detective or an avenger, didn’t want to return to the past - but how deep did he drive the past aggression inside and could he control it?. For the first time in Russian - a recent novel by “the undisputed leader in the new wave of modern British literature” (Observer), which “consistently proves that literature is the best drug” (Spin). The book contains some foul language!