A forbidden manuscript that is discovered in the safe of a leading newspaper creates the unexpected tremors that reverberate through each and every coworker, creating an inside volcano of suspicions, emotions and retrospective analysis of Soviet society. This is the only novel that described the life of Soviet intelligentsia during the Brezhnev period.

Yuri Druzhnikov has introduced a new genre in the Russian literature which embeds elements of literary analysis with elements of a classical detective work. His other masterpieces are: Russian Myths, and Pavlik Morozov- Pioneer #1.

551 pages