The Experimenter

Why do we wear masks to be loved? Oleg Ledovy has gotten used to living by the rules of power: he is successful, wealthy, and has long stopped believing in feelings. Women in his world want one thing — money, status, advantageous closeness. Everything is predictable. Everything is under control. She appeared in his life as a coincidence. Or as someone’s too well-thought-out game. Anna. Fragile, strange, elusive. A girl in a tattered coat who unexpectedly senses luxury, changes roles, disappears without explanation, and each time seems to become someone else. A connection ignites between them, where desire proves to be more dangerous than truth, and closeness — scarier than exposure. The world of big money, social deals, and impeccable facades is cracking at the seams as secrets of the past, humiliation, obsession, and feelings that neither of them was prepared for come to light. «The Experimenter» — a sensual psychological novel about a passion that penetrates under the skin, and about a love that resembles a risky experiment too closely. A story about people who desperately want to be loved, but pay for closeness with lies.