About the book: 2013 / This peculiar parable originates in the city of Baku in our days, and continues in a completely different world and in a different era . Three of our contemporaries (an army officer, a scientist and a mafioso), led by a certain Guide, are heading to the mysterious Glade, which, according to rumors, can recreate lost things and even resurrect dead people. Each of the three goes there with his own hope and with a very specific goal. On the way to the treasured place, a Predator lies in wait for travelers - either a real creature, or just a fiction... but it’s unlikely that any of the readers will be able to guess how it will all end…