About the book: year / New Earth. Life goes on as usual - family, work, as expected. Moreover, the work is really interesting. It catches you with interest, sending you on a business trip “for unknown reasons,” they say, “they’ll explain it there.” They probably would have explained it there, but what should an office employee do who, along the way - such is the frontier life - is captured, and then into actual slavery outside civilized territories? The same thing he always does: work with his head, to get out into more acceptable conditions. And only then, if possible, settle accounts with everyone who is to blame. That’s how they are, desk employees of Novaya Zemlya. They know how to use a machine gun, and they know exactly when and who to shoot themselves - and who is better to bring under fire from the other side…