About the book: 2020 / Lipticut is a decaying city, a real hole. Polluted streets, broken facades of houses, terrible roads and equally terrible people. The stench, dust, dirty air... The city was turning into an even greater outcast than it had been before. Could it get any worse? It turns out it can. Hundreds of people disappear from Lipticut overnight. No traces. It seems like they just evaporated. All sorts of rumors and speculations begin to circulate - from a terrorist attack to mass suicide or the machinations of a religious cult. Clouds are gathering over the city. The feeling of anxiety is getting closer and closer, growing in puddles in the pouring rain, spreading through the streets, getting ready to splash out over the edges and absorb everything. And a huge hole in the ground only confirms that something is wrong here. Terrible events are coming. To survive, you need to run away from here, without looking back, and never return... The book contains obscene language. The book is a prequel to the novel "A Useless Man"".