Bad Weather

2008. A simple driver, a former soldier of the Afghan war, single-handedly commits a daring robbery of an armored truck transporting money from a large shopping center. Thus, in the million-strong but backwater city of Batuyev, the long story of a powerful and active union of Afghan veterans comes to an end – whether it is a public organization, a business alliance, or a criminal group: in the "wild nineties," when this union was formed and gained strength, it was difficult to distinguish one from the other. But the novel is not about money or crime, but about the bad weather in the soul. It is about the desperate search for the reason why a person should trust another person in a world where only predators prevail – but life without trust is impossible. The novel is about how greatness and despair have the same roots. About how each of us risks inadvertently falling into a storm and never escaping from there, because the storm is both a refuge and a trap, salvation and perdition, great consolation and eternal pain of life.