About the book: 2011 / The world is simple: there is the Band and there is everyone else. There are the customs of the Band, and there is the law of cities and principalities, and if the custom contradicts the law, so much the worse for the law. When the gang of Ataman Ryk found out who kidnapped the little daughter of the local prince, they first decided that fate was giving them a chance to get fabulously rich. It seems that everything is simple: you just need to find the mysterious Gray Horseman, who, they say, is the devil himself and steals children in order to plug holes in the ground through which demons from the underworld climb into the world. You need not to die in an insidious ambush, not to perish in terrible dungeons, not to be lost in the night forest... You need to bury your friends, you need to sacrifice yourself, and in the end, when you have to face the monstrous creatures of Darkness, it will still turn out that this is not the case at all. in gold. The fact is that everyone has to make a choice where, it seems, there can be no choice at all.