About the book: 2020 / Human civilizations, intrigues, economic conflicts and wars with warlike non-humanoid neighbors. Our contemporary, Maxim Melnikov, is drawn into the whirlpool of events and is forced, gritting his teeth, to do what he knows best - protect people. But in this war, a stab in the back and betrayal are commonplace, and despite everything, the principle “Do what you must, and let it be” becomes his main motto..