About the book: 1999 / The past and the present are connected much more tightly than is commonly thought. The Ball, preserved by the Guardians for thousands of years, is an artifact of the ancient race that inhabited the Earth, and became the cause of the bloody events that took place in Russia at the end of the 20th century. As in the 9th century in Tibet, when the legendary ruler Langdarma died under mysterious circumstances, ideal killers - ninjas, strike a devastating blow, and no earthly intelligence agency can prevent them..