Promises of Darkness

11 hrs. 31 min.

Language Russian

Author Maxime Chattam

Narrator Sergey Pukhov

Description

New York is the city where anything is possible. There’s even purgatory—right under your feet. Don’t believe it? The entrance has been in Brooklyn for more than a century—in house number five hundred on Twenty-Fifth Street…

New York is the city where there is everything—and even more than enough: shining skyscrapers shoot up into the sky, dark dens plunge into the depths, underground lairs of outcasts—tunnels of “mole-men.” Vampires and their victims walk the streets; in the realm of political correctness, sexual globalization develops at a wild speed, the two-faced Janus of excitement— and the reporter Brady O’Donnel goes down into Hell, which opens its gates hospitably.

Having become an unwilling witness to Ruby’s suicide, an actress who starred in shocking films, he loses peace forever and begins an investigation that threatens not only his own life.

Who will win—and are there winners in the battle of “black” and “white”? Isn’t binary logic just a banal illusion of three-dimensionality? What awaits the World Soul? Large corporations have long dreamed of turning it into the main “business product”… But even in concrete jungles there are other values.

This novel is part of a larger project bringing together such famous authors as Bernard Werber, Maxime Chattam, and Maurice Dantec.