About the book: 2020 / Just recently, another world war died down. The winners enjoy the fruits of success, the losers yearn for another revenge. However, destructive chaos again threatens to overwhelm the inhabited corner of the universe, due to the irrepressible dreams of the powers that be about world domination. The usual bonds of the world order are becoming thinner. The once mighty United Federation is bursting at the seams. The ominous word - “kinezh” (cybernetic undead) - still causes wild fear among all humanity. And only the shadow of the guardian, invisibly hanging over the world, knows on whom exactly the salvation of a civilization that has driven itself into a dead end depends..