Publisher's Synopsis
...Children kill parents, parents kill children, beat or kill a complete stranger, but do not rob; a crime can be committed by one or the whole gang. Such gangs are terrorizing the whole district, stumbling around idle or senselessly fighting each other - and for what ?! Here it is, the time of "peace" and "prosperity", when criminals can be from both higher and lower elements of society, their behavior has no practical reason, often there is no question of any premises and consequences. When the perpetrators of such crimes are asked to explain their behavior, they respond in approximately the same way: it was an "impulse", an "impulse"; either the offender experienced sadistic pleasure in committing the crime, or there was an excuse that did not correspond to the gravity of the crime, such as boredom, dullness, indignation....
