About the book: 2017 / God forbid you experience a feeling of alienation. When everyone around you has turned away from you, when danger is staring you in the face, and there is nowhere to wait for help. But GRU special forces soldiers, accustomed to war and death, have long become familiar with this feeling; it seemed that there was nothing on Earth that could break their courage. It seemed like it would always be like this. But then one day the special forces encountered something inexplicable, breaking all human patterns. And their life instantly plunged into an unbearable nightmare, and their destinies became a toy for someone else’s mind…