Not a saint

“Not a Saint” is the debut novel of Glib Gusev, a journalist, one of the founders of the online publication “Babel”. I’m trying to paint a portrait of the hero of our hour. Artem Shcherbakov is twenty-three years old, having moved to Kiev in search of himself. Unemployed, staying with a friend. Artyom begins to lead the book and addresses his father, whom he has never cared for. Vin writes down everything he experiences. What can you learn about from your 23rd birthday? How we were born in the desert of Turkmenistan and nine years ago began to walk again after an injury. Having become a raider in Mariupol, selling drugs and working as a waiter. Happily in America, once upon a time a deer jumped out of the forest and ate his underwear. Like selling stolen army fuel in sector “M”, fighting the Ukrainian war and becoming a secret agent. Not long ago. And not entirely secret. Like having married a lot of wives - just like in stories about James Bond. The main character grows up in an era of collapsed regimes and disintegrated values, wondering for himself and his place all over the world. All his stories are true. Somehow or other stories about secret agents.