About the book: 2018 / Karl Marsalis is the thirteenth, the fruit of genetic experiments, a man created to fight in the last conflicts of the 21st century. But after the second civil war in the United States, after the split of North America into three states, after hunger riots and uprisings, peace came on Earth, and the thirteenth began to be considered dangerous mutants. Some were executed, a few went to work for the government, but most were exiled to Mars. When a spaceship crashes into the Pacific Ocean and mutilated and half-eaten corpses are found inside, the police conclude that one of the thirteen escaped from a Martian colony, and now A dangerous psychopath, a cannibal and a serial killer ended up on Earth. His motives are unclear, his actions inexplicable, and his cruelty incredible. Unable to find or even understand such a terrible enemy, the police resort to the help of the thirteenth hunter - Karl Marsalis. He still does not know that this case is not so simple, and the investigation will soon turn into a real nightmare. It will take Karl throughout the brave new world and will come face to face with questions about where the origins of human cruelty lie and whether it is possible to escape the captivity of one’s own genes..