Vertical races

“Vertical Racing” (1974) is one of the most famous works of the Vainer brothers. And at the same time - almost unknown: being filmed, the novel turned out to be partially obscured by the film of the same name (1982), which was played by such popular actors as Andrei Myagkov and Valentin Gaft. The film preserved mainly the external plot: the history of the confrontation of the investigator Stas Tikhonov and the thief of Lech Dedushkin nicknamed Baton. The struggle of justice with lawlessness, hard work with parasitism, good with evil.

Behind this straightforward formula in the book two far from schematic heroist hero live with his doubts, despair, and loneliness. Thanks to the dialogical construction of the narrative, the authors give a word equally to both sides. Especially interesting is the image of the loaf - smart, charming, tormented parasite and renegade. Readers will meet with the famous hero from the “meeting place cannot be changed” - Sharapov, who has now become Lieutenant Colonel Moore.
The story also included the story “He feels at noon” (1968) It was after her publication that widers came to the Weiners. Yu. Nagibin called the story A fresh word in the development of the detective genre