About the book: 2013 / Unprecedented luck fell on Dmitry Sbirsky. His biggest boss Podolsky offers him a mind-blowing opportunity to earn huge money by becoming a merchant in his secret trading house on the planet Marlan, which does not belong to our solar system. Friends, Dmitry and Vyacheslav, get to the planet with the help of a certain gate, an artifact found back in Soviet times during one of the expeditions to Lake Baikal by Podolsky himself, at that time a simple scientist. They have to trade, make deals and bring income to their owner. It turns out that the population of distant Marlan is no different from people, only they are five hundred years behind in development, if not more: the feudal system, edged weapons, intrigues, criminals and forest robbers and, of course, a lot of prohibitions and taboos. Many events will happen before than Dmitry finally learns about the true purpose of the merchant houses, of which there are three more on the planet. There is a big race going on in the kingdom, the hunt for a spaceship that has crashed into this patriarchal wilderness, filled to the brim with high technology..