The Era of Scoundrels

This novel opens a series of books about the Directorate N—a division of the Foreign Intelligence Service that, in reality, never existed—one of its most successful agents with the operational pseudonym Odysseus, who also turns out to be nothing more than a figment of the author’s imagination. All five novels of the “Unfinished Chronicles of the Third World” are pure and exclusive fiction, the author’s flight of fantasy—though woven into the fabric of real events. None of this happened for real—but it could have…

The first book of the “Unfinished Chronicles…”—the novel “The Era of Rogues”—tells of events in the Balkans in the spring of 1999. The plot is based on a real fact: the crash at Budapest airport of the American reconnaissance plane E-2 “Hawkeye.” The author simply allowed himself to disagree with the official version of the disaster, presenting his own version of how events unfolded. And the reader, of course, can decide for themselves whose explanation is true and whose is invented from start to finish…