About the book: 2022 / For the first time in Russian - a classic American noir novel, once already filmed in the golden era of Hollywood with Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell in the lead roles. And now a new film version is being released on world screens: directed by Guillermo del Toro, the film stars Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Willem Dafoe, Ron Perlman, Rooney Mara, Toni Colette and others. Stan Carlyle works in the traveling booth “Ten in One”. He is young, talented and ambitious and, with a keen understanding of human nature, has the makings of a successful mentalist - a “mind reader”. And now Stan performs at prestigious venues with his own act and marries a beautiful assistant, and his seances are very popular in the highest circles of society. But even while preparing the most ambitious scam of his career, he is unable to get rid of the image of “nightmare alley” that has haunted him since childhood... “Gresham turns the notorious American dream inside out. His hero hobbles in the darkness along the alley of nightmares, hoping to the last - and we hope with him - that the path will not end in a dead end and there will be light ahead" (Los Angeles Times).