About the book: 2011 / World War II, Harbin, the legendary detachment 731, where people are infected with plague and gas gangrene, dried and frozen. Modern prosperous Moscow. Space station of the high-tech 27th century. Different times, people and destinies. But the questions remain the same. Can murder be justified by a higher purpose? Killing for a scientific breakthrough? Killing for the public good? Killing...mercy? This is not a philosophical treatise - it is a work of art. This is not realism - this is science fiction of the highest standard. Is the world ruled by hatred - or is the world ruled by love? Read and find out. “I have been following this writer with interest for a long time, and he has never disappointed me yet. Moreover, he repeatedly demonstrated enviable originality, originality, the ability to show a seemingly familiar world from a completely unexpected point of view, the ability to make an impression, “scratch the soul,” and make you think. For example, his novel “The Garden of Hieronymus Bosch” is distinguished not only by its original approach to one of the world’s most ancient tragic plots, but it is written in a fascinating way and gives the reader material for empathy that is so shocking that you walk under the impression of what you read for more than a day or two. This is the work of an accomplished master" (Boris Strugatsky).