Ned Маддстоун is a pet of fate. He is beautiful, clever, rich and even noble. He has a loving father and favourite girl. But he have enemies. And once a wicked школярская joke inverts life of Ned, deprives him all : freedom, love, father, state. From now on instead of all of it for him is madness and furious desire to take revenge."Tennis balls of skies" are an acute parody and setting to in modern way of "Count Монте-Кристо", funny, energetic and clever book deserving original. Stephen Фрай quite not exploits the famous novel of Дюма, but fills with his new senses and nuances, managing to add fascination. It is a "adult" version of "Монте-Кристо" the family, the real gift for all, who in childhood, with the bated breath, turned over the pages of book Дюма.Stephen Фрай - one of the brightest people of present England. He is an outstanding intellectual actor-person (at us known on the roles of Oscar Уайльда and Дживса from a serial on Вудхаузу), caustic essayist of conservative "Дейли telegraph", popular showman and excellent novelist, winning both love of readers and kind words of critics-snobs.