In this novel, we see a man who is deeply disillusioned and lost between two worlds—no longer quite Russian, but also not yet fully American. An immigrant living in America who didn’t like it here and doesn’t particularly like it there. The only thing he truly knows is violence—and perhaps weapons. And it goes on until the moment when someone places an order for that and for the other. But the novel only begins from there: to step onto a dangerous path is one thing; to steer through it somehow is another—something not everyone brave enough to do can manage…