The Light in the Window

Stas is a musician from Moscow. He works at night, mixing tracks, messaging a friend in Berlin. An ordinary evening. An ordinary message: "I'll be quick, back in half an hour." He never returned. He was abducted by men posing as narcotics police. They beat him, drove him into the woods, prepared to kill him. Only one thing saved him: an open Skype chat and a friend who didn't get an answer. Katya is a journalist from Berlin. She didn't know Stas when she wrote her first article about him. She was simply looking for stories of people who disappear and come back. But this story became for her not an article, not a book, not a podcast. It became the beginning. The beginning of a journey that would lead her to dozens of other missing people, to hundreds of letters, to thousands of questions with no answers. Light in the Window is the first book in the Katya Vetrova investigative series. It is a story about how a friend a thousand kilometres away turned out to be closer than those nearby. About how one open program saved a life.