Trained to win the fighter

Alexander Terekhov is the author of novels "Memoirs of military service", "Winter day a new beginning", "Babayev", "Stone bridge". In the novel "Trained to win the fighter of" the main character is a rat catcher, the Ratslayer. The action takes place in a small town in the early nineties. The atmosphere of nervousness and impending disaster recognizable, the story quickly develops into a socially grotesque, and occasionally a Thriller. The rat is a symbol of fascism (how here not to remember "the Plague" by A. Camus), or something strange that is coming to the country. The novel's characters struggle to speak, but nobody listens and understands... novel translated into English.