Tot, kto vladeet chelovecheskimi umami, vladeet mirom, - i eto prekrasno ponimaet molodoy uchenyy Lyudvig SHtirner - izobretatel udivitelnogo apparata, peredayuschego mysli na rasstoyanii, kak radiovolny. Otnyne izobretatel mozhet bez truda poluchit vse, o chem ranshe ne smel i mechtat, - bogatstvo, vlast i dazhe serdtse lyubimoy devushki Elzy. Protiv nego bessilny politsiya, armiya i spetssluzhby, i edinstvennyy, kto sposoben emu protivostoyat, - moskovskiy fizik Kachinskiy, tozhe zanimayuschiysya problemoy vozdeystviya radiovoln na chelovecheskiy mozg. Voyna dvuh geniev nachinaetsya? Roman Belyaeva byl vpervye opublikovan v 1926 godu, no i v nashi dni chitaetsya kak zamechatelnoe ostrosyuzhetnoe proizvedenie, uvlekatelnoe i polnoe yazvitelnogo yumora.