Why are we afraid to look into the abyss? We are not afraid of heights — we are afraid of ourselves. We are afraid that when we hear the call of emptiness, we will want to respond and take a step. And some of us respond... Strange murders are taking place in Paris — either a ritual, or the work of a maniac. Ludivine Vanker, an employee of the Paris investigation Department, is once again faced with evil, with an alliance of predators, in whose crimes this time there is not even a hint of mysticism, which makes them no less infernal. A perverted consciousness is capable of terrible things — but what happens if you put it at the service of a coherent ideological system? Terrorists disfigure lives and souls, including those they persuade to their side, but what if the soul has already been disfigured? Predators do not know compassion, they are not interested in living people, but in inhuman abstractions. Ludivina will once again find herself face to face with them and learn how to deal with evil if it is elusive. Maxim Shattam, the author of bestsellers that sell millions of copies, an enthusiastic researcher of evil and horror, started this novel three times — the first two times it turned out too similar to real events. However, there are stories that cannot be ignored, and this is one of them. The translation of the novel "The Call of the Void" is published in a new edition. detective, violence, action-packed detective, police, psychological thriller, investigation, religious fanatics, detective series, modern foreign prose, murder.