About the book: 2002 / July 14, 1911, a three-car tourist train left the Rome Station. After 12 hours, he entered one of the mountain tunnels of Lombardy and... disappeared. Many years later, the train begins to appear on railways around the world, frightening bystanders. A group of daredevils decides to challenge the unknown force guarding the secret of the “Flying Italian”. During the investigation, it turns out that the missing train carried the head of a famous writer, stolen after his death by adherents of a secret cult... The heroes of the fantasy adventure novel “The Ring of Time” have been experiencing the most incredible adventures for twelve years. The mystical events described in the first part of the novel “An Hour Before the Deadline” continue with a journey into the past in the second part “The Guest” and lead the heroes to an unexpected fantastic ending in “Alpha Canis Majoris.” The Ring of Time trilogy was published for the first time in 2002 by the Media Technology Service publishing house. Previously, a heavily modified version of the first part was published under this title..