This Sweet Naked Bastard

«I was born and finished school in Tashkent. I studied in Leningrad – LGU, Department of Art History. I gained experience in Moscow. I have lived in France for more than 30 years.

In general, the author's biography, unless he is a serial killer or a president of the country (sometimes they coincide), should not interest the reader – everything the reader finds interesting is in the texts.

I have four published novels in my history: “How Do You Live in Paris?” (rights bought for “big” cinema), “This Sweet Naked Bastard”, “Such a Tender Corpse”, “Chassis-Cross”.

A play based on the piece “Sentimental Cruise” was staged from 2004 at the stage of the Ukrainian National Drama Theater named after I. Franco for 15 years».

Before us is both a masterful love story and a political pamphlet, as well as a spy novel.

Rare obstinacy of the book. Contempt for slavery and a hymn to independence. And the geometry is magnificent: everything is thought out to logical details, tied in an elegant knot, all guns hit the target. And the reward for those who hit – a sweet naked bastard, as willful and unforgettable as the author himself.

Ivan Tolstoy, literary historian, journalist, and literary critic