Vasily Vedeneyev’s new novel “The Recipient” can be called the first bold raid into the “zone of silence” that appeared during the stagnation period. It’s about the mafia and racketeering, as well as negative phenomena in law enforcement agencies.
The author calls on society to pay attention to a very dangerous phenomenon—organized crime—and to begin fighting it immediately, before this creeping criminal counterrevolution against socialism tightens like a noose around the country’s economy, which is only just starting to revive. The book touches on a number of negative phenomena that are being actively confronted today—protectionism, bribery, abuse of official position, callous bureaucratic rule. The novel takes place in Moscow in our days.