Money Smells of Blood

10 hrs. 0 min.

Language Russian

Author Alexey Shumilov

Narrator Yury Belyk

Today you’re a dollar millionaire in reality— and tomorrow you’re the son of an alcoholic and a petty criminal in distant 1986…

But perhaps this is far better than an absurd death!

The life of a successful businessman is full of unexpected turns and unpredictable twists of fate. Alexander Loginov had to learn this for himself. Today: you’re a dollar millionaire, your wife is a beauty, you have a small son, and a big corporation under your control. But tomorrow they decide to destroy you and take the business. Your beloved wife and son die in a staged accident, and the gangsters throw you off the balcony.

But higher powers give Alexander a chance at a new life. He finds himself in the past—in the body of a young criminal who got stabbed by a friend in a drunken fight. Outside the window is spring of 1986. The beginning of perestroika is ahead: the cooperative movement, the collapse of the USSR, the roaring nineties, gang conflicts, and regional wars.

Alexander will have to live in a miserable communal apartment with an alcoholic stepfather, alongside a tortured and frightened mother—and lead the life of a petty criminal. But can someone who in his previous life earned millions of dollars and ran a huge enterprise with a steady hand accept this? Especially knowing how events in the country will unfold and what to do to become not just a billionaire, but a “gray cardinal,” able to pull politicians’ strings and change the country’s life for the better.

1. Money Smells of Blood