For the first time in Russian - and in a brilliant translation by Vasily Arkanov ("Full Illumination" and "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer) - the newest novel from the bestselling author of "The Informers" and "American Psycho", "The Rules of Sex" and " Lunar Park." In this book, the herald of “Generation X” returned a quarter of a century later to the heroes of his debut novel “Below Zero,” with which he made a splash at the age of twenty. So, having flown from New York to Los Angeles, where screen tests are to take place for the film “The Listeners” based on his script (an echo of Ellis’s participation in the film adaptation of “The Informers” in 2008), Clay plunges into a whirlpool of mysterious incidents. Someone is chasing him in a blue jeep, someone is bombarding him with anonymous messages. everyone around is hinting at the strange circumstances of the recent death of a producer, and a young actress met at a New Year’s party is ready to do anything to get to the screen test for “The Listeners”...