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Nekotorye shutki obkhodi͡atsi͡a slishkom dorogo, i posledstvii͡a mogut bytʹ nepredskazuemy... Udachlivyĭ molodoĭ biznesmen Maĭkl Kharrison nakanune svadʹby priglasil chetyrekh zakadychnykh druzeĭ na malʹchishnik, namerevai͡asʹ na slavu poveselitʹsi͡a. On i ne podozrevaet, chto tovarishchi reshili otomstitʹ schastlivomu zhenikhu za vse ego mnogochislennye prikoly i zadumali neobychnyĭ rozygrysh: Maĭklu predstoit provesti neskolʹko chasov v grobu, zakopannom v zemli͡u. Vozmozhno, on i ot͡senil by ėtu shutku po dostoinstvu, esli by sudʹba ne vnesla svoi korrektivy: bukvalʹno cherez neskolʹko minut prii͡ateli pogibai͡ut. Teperʹ Kharrison obrechen, vedʹ nikto ne znaet, gde ego iskatʹ. Ili shans vse-taki estʹ?Superintendant Roĭ Greĭs, k kotoromu popadaet delo o zagadochnom ischeznovenii, nameren sdelatʹ vse vozmozhnoe i nevozmozhnoe, ibo ne ponaslyshke znaet, kak ėto uzhasno, kogda li͡udi propadai͡ut bez vesti. Vedʹ ego zhena Sėndi devi͡atʹ let nazad tozhe ushla iz domu i ne vernulasʹ...Roman vykhodit v novom perevode. Chitatʹ dalʹshe…

Some jokes are too expensive, and the consequences can be unpredictable... Successful young businessman Michael Harrison invited four bosom friends to a bachelor party on the eve of the wedding, intending to have a lot of fun. He does not even suspect that his comrades have decided to take revenge on the happy groom for all his many jokes and have conceived an unusual prank: Michael will have to spend several hours in a coffin buried in the ground. Perhaps he would have appreciated this joke if fate had not made its own adjustments.: literally in a few minutes, the friends die. Now Harrison is doomed, because no one knows where to find him. Or is there still a chance?Superintendent Roy Grace, who gets the case of a mysterious disappearance, intends to do everything possible and impossible, because he knows firsthand how terrible it is when people go missing. After all, his wife Sandy had also left home nine years ago and had not returned...The novel is published in a new translation. Read more…