The Great Garbage Man

“The Great Garbage Man” — a thriller novel about the adventures of the “devil hunter” in a small country called Lacuna, where a dreamer dictator has decided to make his people happy by declaring a healthy lifestyle as the national idea. And the goal seems to be almost achieved: sanitary correctional camps are being built, strict birth control is being enforced, vineyards are being cut down—wine is evil—but then a young Frenchman, an explorer of ancient beliefs, secretly infiltrates the closed-off Lacuna. His plans to study the forbidden cult of the devil are interrupted by a sudden love for the dictator's daughter, and all the forces of state security are thrown into the search for him. Meanwhile, the devil worshippers are preparing for the celebration of the equinox, and the dictator's daughter goes missing… Isai Kuznetsov 1916–2010 — a prose writer, playwright, author of scripts for the films “The Possessions of the Republic”, “Moscow — Cassiopeia”, “The Boys in the Universe”, “The Lost Expedition” in collaboration with A. Zak, as well as “The Golden River”, “The Kidnapping of the «Savoie»”, the novels “Ladders” and “Everyone Has Left”, the book “Once Upon a Time in War”, and memoirs about Zinnovy Gerdt, Alexander Galich, and David Samoylov. The novel “The Great Garbage Man” is published for the first time.