About the book: 2010 / The Silver Horse leads Artem Novikov and Professor Nefedov through the glaciers and passes of the Hindu Kush. The people of Nadir Shah follow on their heels, burning with the desire to avenge their master. Bullets whistle, avalanches rumble, desert demons thirst for human blood and receive it in full. Having fought off their enemies, Artyom and the professor end up with the mysterious Makhands living in an inaccessible mountain valley. There Novikov falls in love with the beautiful Telli, the leader's daughter. Thanks to his talent as a marksman, Artyom saves the Makhands from a gang of Kashgar smugglers. He wants to stay with Telli, but the will of Genghis Khan prompts him to continue his journey. Wandering through foreign lands, Artyom and Nefedov find themselves in a valley where time has stopped. Here live side by side the ancient Scythians and officers of the Russian White Guard, soldiers of Alexander the Great and Chinese soldiers of Chiang Kai-shek's army. A mysterious chronospasm steals fourteen years of Artyom’s life and, miraculously surviving in a labyrinth of anomalous zones, he finds himself in Russia in 1994. Novikov does not recognize his country. His childhood friend Vitek became a crime boss. He invites Novikov to become a killer and kill the young Moscow businessman Andrei Gumilyov…