Sasha Filipenko had his own reader immediately - after the success of The Former Son and the next two novels. 'Bullying', published by 'Znamen' even before the book was published, according to the electronic portal 'Journal Hall', became in 2016 the most popular text of all Russian thick literary magazines. This means that your reader understands what to expect from the Red Cross. He will not be deceived: the novel also contains a shocking, on the verge of plausibility, story of a young hero; and compressed, like a spring, plot; and the cinematic intersection of times; and a paradoxical denouement. But there is also news: all this trademark Sasha's 'fiction' is completely overwhelmed by the documentary series he obtained and introduced into the novel - the history of contacts between the USSR People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs and the International Red Cross during the war. Sasha Filipenko is a master of creating a mood with associative editing.