About the book: 1999 / The new book of the famous writer includes the novel "Limiters", which was on the bestseller lists when first published, the famous stories "I am a Killer" and "I am a terrorist", translated and published in Germany and the USA. They, together with the story “The Murder of General Rokhlin”, are combined into the cycle “The Time of the Beast”. All three works were written from the perspective of a riot policeman. In the third section of the book, the author included his new works, his favorite ones, stories about love. They were previously published only in the magazines "October" and "Moscow". In the center of the action-packed novel "The Limiters" is the fate of two former paratroopers who came to Moscow under the limit. One was gradually sucked into the mafia, and the other, trying to live an ordinary normal life, nevertheless encountered the criminal world and ended up in a prison cell. Here the friends met again, and both became victims of the mafia, only in different ways..