You cannot escape the past - it will overtake you and wait for you at the end of the world.
Frantisek Horak was nicknamed Red Rage. That was during the previous regime, when everyone was still afraid of his investigative methods. That was when the strange suicide of the young man occurred, by jumping from a rock with only his shoes left on top.
But all that is now forgotten. Horák is a pensioner who lives in the North Bohemian town of Ústí nad Labem and hopes no one recognizes him anymore. His only solace is the closed religious community and the Pastor who leads it. But then strange signs begin to appear, as if the devil is not just a symbolic figure, but someone who can actually stand in man's way. And with the devil, the past is also slowly returning. The day of reckoning is approaching.
Michal Vrba caught our attention with his short story collection Around Jacob, which was nominated for the Magnesia Litera Award last year. While his short stories have historically covered a long period from the Middle Ages to the present, this time the author comes up with a tight prose that combines the social novel with detective techniques and fantasy motifs.
