Paris, 1968: student riots, workers' strikes, the Fifth Republic is in danger of collapse, a new future is around the next corner. In the midst of the general sublime madness, the young romantic Herve discovers the corpse of a familiar student, monstrously mutilated and in a pose clearly hinting at yoga — and who should Herve turn to but his older brother, a veteran of the war in Algeria, a hardened cynic and, in addition, a policeman Jean-Louis Mersch? Paris is about to flare up like a match, there are riots on the streets, the police are not up to unknown maniacs, and three people are investigating: Jean-Louis is responsible for police work, Herve and Nicole, also a student and a friend of the murdered woman, for the cultural context that Jean-Louis does not understand and does not want to understand. In his new novel "Red Karma", the recognized master, winner of numerous prestigious awards, the intrepid researcher of evil Jean-Christophe Granger once again pushes the boundaries of the genre of historical detective thriller. There will be sinister sects, human cruelty, ancestral secrets and fragile hope in this story. Granger leads his characters through winding paths all over Paris, then to India — to Calcutta and Varanasi, where they will discover the terrible, blood—stained truth - and finally to the Vatican, where the solution will be found and, perhaps, hope will be revived. These three could have become the heroes of Paris in 1968 - but no, they became the heroes of a completely different story, much scarier and bloodier. For the first time in Russian!