Complete dramatic effect official novel with the elements of perceptible erotica - it is so possible to describe the new book of colonel in retirement, journalist and writer Victor Баранца. She is written in the best traditions of соцреализма, with knowledge of all parties of life - from especially military to intimate (what so did not have to the writers of the late USSR, converting both соцреализм and productive novel in the depressed agitation leaflet of decisions of "party and government"). Book of Victor Баранца through acts and feelings of people in shoulder-straps and without gives the exact cut of the state of army and оборонки in the period of сердюковских reforms.The stormy and not at all platonic novel of protagonist is opened out on a background love affairs and corruption in an anchorman ракетостроительном enterprise of Russia. Figuratively speaking, the tender moans of favourite woman of colonel muffle the threatening rolls of starting engines of battle rockets regularly. Two main lines of novel - official and intimate - as a two main мотиватора of masculine life, both interlaced or going away, so not give right to end an answer for philosophical questions: which in the officer soul there is balance between this and then and by Woman? Between Honour and Passion? Between the Soul and Body?Perchance, will a reader succeed to find these answers in itself?