About the book: 2014 / For almost twenty years, Bob Saginovsky stood behind the bar - every day from four in the afternoon until two in the morning - "a strange, lonely Bob the bartender", a man with a dark past, immersed in memories, almost losing hope of finding simple human happiness. Change always comes unexpectedly. Bob's measured life quickly unfolds into a turbulent film drama, the participants of which include robbers who encroached on the thieves' "common fund", Chechen bandits, a curious Puerto Rican cop and a crazy blackmailer who imagines himself as Superman. And also the mysterious girl Nadya. But it all started when, on the third day after Christmas, Bob found a dog in a trash can.…