The Fall of the Raven

The novel is based on a real story—one that turns out to be more surprising than in the movies.

Kostya Voronov’s parents had prior convictions; he himself was born in a colony. Thanks to his influential father, he enjoys the support of the “law people”—criminal bosses who, on the eve of the collapse of the USSR, devised a new strategy connected with exporting the thieves’ common fund to one of the neighboring countries. They created a criminal organization of the mafia type there, squeezing the local criminal world and paving a path for Russian criminals to the West.

Carrying out this plan is assigned to Voron, who succeeds. But his love for a girl who turns out to be a prosecutor makes him search for a compromise between law and bandit “concepts.” Yet is it even possible to live both in a wolf pack and among people at the same time? The real story that underlies the novel gives a convincing answer to this question.