For the first time in Russian, following the French edition that became a literary sensation in its homeland! The end of 1950. Young American Army Colonel Frank Bolton returns from the Korean War, having lost an arm. Barely back in his hometown, he learns that all his former lovers are dying terrible deaths. If only he could have guessed who the killer would be!.. If only he could have escaped fate! But There Is No Escape. Boris Vian devised the plot in the spirit of Vernon Sullivan, wrote four chapters, and did not finish the novel. One hundred years after the writer's birth, his heirs proposed to the literary group OULIPO (Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle - Workshop of Potential Literature) to complete the continuation. OULIPO authors agreed and created a new detective story, playing charades with both the original author and the readers.