About the book: 2010 / For thousands of years, those who are commonly called Geeks have lived among people. Ancient blood flows in their veins, smelling of sulfur, their mother they call Lilith, the Duchess of Hell, and their reputation is blacker than ink. Criminals and maleficars, monsters and werewolves, necromancers and sorcerers... Fortunately, the times of the power of the Degenerates are long gone, only four clans of the Ancient Blood have survived, settled in the city of Ur, the Brilliant and the Cursed, and trying to survive in the world belonging to mortals. Professional exterminator of evil spirits Seth Slaughter, nicknamed the Bastard, is an outcast even in his own clan. There is a saying about him: “No one comes to ask for Slaughter’s help of their own free will - everyone is pushed in the back by the dead.” But if the dead themselves come to hire the Bastard, then things are really bad…