Marina Степнова is an author of novel of "Woman Lazarus" (шорт-лист bonuses "The Large book", "National best seller", "Clear Glade", "Russian букер"), her stories gladly print thick magazines, brilliant master of style, and also editor-in-chief of popular masculine magazine.In a novel "Surgeon" history of genius plastic surgeon Arcadia Хрипунова is casebound with the recital of life of Хасана ибн Саббаха - prophet and founder of the state исламитов-низаритов XI century, owner of unapproachable fortress Аламут. Хрипунов changes human bodies, and and fates. Granting new persons to the people, he sees before itself simply material - cartilages and skin. Ибн Саббах requires from the "material" of implicit obedience and handwritten kills disagreeable. Both feel the creatures of higher order, human passions them do not touch, only, what is able to stagger select God, is earthly beauty.