Assistant

Roman Alexis Shamanov "Assistant" pushes the usual boundaries of traditional Russian adventure novel and surely becoming one of the most vivid portrait of the events of 2008.

The story begins with the fact that 33-year-old artist Andrey Tatarinov agrees to take part in working on a historical film in the vicinity of lake Baikal is preparing to take the international film group. At that moment, the hero who became an assistant art Director, does not know that the shooting of the film will take place on the sacred island of Olkhon, where according to tradition, is the tomb of Genghis Khan, and that the grave, which for centuries have been searching unsuccessfully for scientists and adventurers, and will be the real objective of the strange and the film crew. He knows also that accidental touching of the ancient shaman's tambourine will run in it, Andrei Tatarinov, hitherto slept hereditary mechanism of gaining mystical powers. Force that once possessed his ancestors, shamans.
...While the shooting continues, despite the fact that one by one, people are dying mysteriously. Beckons mirages and the mysteries of the island, the vodka flows like water and is not intoxicating, and the doomed expedition becomes a world of ancient legends and spells. A world where sleep is so difficult to distinguish from reality, where thoughts can kill and resurrect, where the white ice of lake Baikal will be a terrible black depth, and where vigilantly looking out for the victims of the human soul predatory woman bird Muu-Saboun.

The novel was nominated for the award "national bestseller".