The Daring. The Watcher

8 hrs. 23 min.

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Language Russian

Authors Alexey Vyazovsky, Dmitry Chaika

Author Alexey Vyazovsky

Author Dmitry Chaika

Narrator Miroslav Velesov

Description

The second part of the “Wild” cycle is a crime-fantasy novel about a person whom fate sends back to the nineties. Here, gang shootouts, wars with the cops, and the collapse of the country are not scenery—they’re a battlefield. The hero has already gone through that time and once lost everything; now he gets a chance to replay the past—more cold-blooded, more calculating, and harsher, without the old self-deceptions.

The nineties are shown from the inside, with all their texture: crimson suits, thieves’ rules, “the watchers,” and ordinary people forced to survive between crime and power. In one text, a detective story, an action movie, and a criminal drama are combined—like an attempt to understand what that era really was. Serega Khlyst charges straight ahead, breaking the “wild” for himself: a new Russia, Berezovsky, Yeltsin, the “seven bankers,” and, of course, the Lobnya gang. Against the background of the privatization frenzy, blood, and endless showdowns, he finds himself squeezed between criminal pressure and state interests—trying not only to survive in a world where the law is changed on the fly and money smells like gunpowder, but also to preserve dignity where friendship is cheap and betrayal is just a matter of time.