About the book: year / This is not Sparta - this is Styx. They won’t kill you for being a beginner, but they will count the steps with your forehead, your fingers will be made to crunch under your boots, and your ribs will be trimmed with a butt. And as always, there are three types of bad guys - psychos and scumbags, ready to shower you with choice obscenities and laughingly cut you into pieces while still alive, two-faced scumbags who call you a friend, but will stick a knife in your back, and cunning, smart, calculating schemers playing out the next gambit.