"Was there a boy?" asked the assistant to Podushkin Boris unexpectedly, after they’d listened to another client.
"Maybe there wasn’t even a boy?"
Leonid Svetlov came to Podushkin asking to find his older brother, Nikita. The problem is that Leonid’s son needs a bone marrow transplant, otherwise the boy faces death. Neither Svetlov himself nor his wife could serve as donors.
The case is complicated by the fact that, when Nikita was a teenager, he… strangled their third brother, baby Fyodor, and then ran away from home—no one has seen him since.
But the man still hopes that the brother will help. Maybe God will give him a chance to atone for the murder of Fyodor? One child he deprived of life—so he’ll save the second!
As Podushkin listened to the Svetlov family story, his hair stood on end. Just some criminal novel! Podushkin and Boris set out to search. And what did they find? Such a thing that not even in any nightmare would it appear—and not in any book would it be described.
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"An incredible workhorse! I don’t know any other writer who works as much. I treat her with respect, like a model of writerly diligence. Women need psychological support—and they get it from Dontsova. I myself once read several of Dontsova’s novels. Very different people read her—busy business ladies who want to shut their heads off for a while, and housewives who have a 15–20 minute break between drop-off/pick-up." — Galina Yuzefovich, literary critic.