When Victor Brook, then an eighteen-year-old foreman in Siberia, almost died from the knife wound inflicted by drunken construction workers because he refused to pay them for the work they had not done, he started questioning seriously the insidious and stupefying nature of the socialist system.

At the age of nineteen, he became a reporter for a newspaper and began writing fiction. He earned a B.A. in journalism from the Moscow State University and later spent a few years on assignment in India, representing the Ministry of Foreign Trade. After his return, he took a job as an editor for the Moscow publishing house.

His attempts to publish his stories in the USSR were unsuccessful because of the stories' non-conformist style and originality. Brook chose to leave the land of his birth rather than allow the callous Soviet regime to suppress or silence his individuality and talent. In 1979, after years of surveillance by the KGB, three arrests, searches of his apartment, and interrogations of his friends, he emigrated from the Soviet Union.

His books include short stories, novellas and novels. All these stories were originally written in Russian and, before coming out in book form, appeared in many magazines and literary journals. The writer lives in South Florida.