The Bad Weather

The story takes place in 2008. A simple driver, a former soldier of the Afghan war, alone pulls off a daring robbery of a special van that transports money for a large shopping center. That’s how a long story of the daring and powerful alliance of Afghan veterans ends in Batuev, a one-million city, but a backwater. Whether it was a public organization, a business alliance, or a criminal gang—back in the “wild nineties,” when this alliance was formed and gained strength, it was hard to tell one from another.

But the novel is not about money or crime; it’s about the weather in the soul. About desperate searching for the reason why a person should trust another in a world where only predators rule—but without trust, it is impossible to live. A novel about how greatness and despair have the same roots. About the fact that each of us risks, unwittingly, falling into despair and never getting out again, because despair is a shelter and a trap, salvation and destruction, a great consolation and an endless pain of life.