1971

Former OMON member and sniper Mikhail Karpov still hasn’t managed to get out of the past, into which he ended up in a strange way due to a car accident in 2018. He regrets the Internet, mobile phones, “Mercedes” and “Land Cruisers,” and the freedom to move around the entire planet. He yearns for his family, for his wife. But here, in 1971, in a country called the USSR, his young parents and his beloved grandfather live. Mikhail, however, still can’t bring himself to look at his relatives—even from a distance—because now he’s older than his parents. He decides to devote all his strength and knowledge to fighting for the preservation of the Soviet Union. Besides, he considers it his duty to destroy all the serial killer maniacs he knows about—above all those who attacked children. To carry out such plans, considerable resources are needed, but even here he has already learned how to earn a living: Mikhail Karpov’s science-fiction novels sell in the USSR in huge print runs.