About the book: 2024 / “There are devils in still waters” - life once again confirms the correctness of this statement. 1990. The shy guy Philip Vycherov's grandfather died, and in the deserted village house there was left a large moonshine still with a distillation unit, a steam boiler, a distiller and a refrigerator - everything worked reliably. Philip and his friends plunged into the profitable and extremely dangerous business of producing illegal vodka. The easy money quickly turned heads, and before our eyes the timid guy turned into a greedy and cruel entrepreneur. First, he removes two accomplices so as not to share the profits. Then he frames Eric's closest friend, who ended up in a pre-trial detention center and received a decent sentence. When Eric is released, he is greeted by a completely different country, with a different economy, different orders and laws. The only thing that remained unchanged was his former friend - still just as cruel, still leaving behind bloody traces... “The work of Vladimir Bogdanov is a heart-aching nostalgia, this is an extremely bright and juicy world of youth, this is when everything is to the maximum: both feelings and fidelity , and oaths, and fights... You’re just surprised how important the concepts of Honor, Friendship, Love were once for us. The book tears the soul with its directness and sincerity, and at the same time it heals...” - Alexey MAKEEV, writer, co-author of detective novels about detective Gurov The author of the novel, Vladimir Bogdanov, whose youth and adolescence occurred during the years of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the collapse of morals and mores , values ​​and life ideals, went through dramatic trials in a youth group, where he learned friendship, betrayal, loyalty to his word, and love.