This book is about the helplessness of power if it is not grounded in will and reason. This book is about the might of power if it protects what is human in a person. Its pages are both a kind of history of the highest sporting strength and an autobiography of an Olympic, world, and European champion—one of the most outstanding athletes of all time, Yuri Vlasov—and also a confession by a writer who finds the meaning of life in the passionate defense of good, truth, freedom, and justice…