Through Death

Mikhail Atamanov is a popular Russian science-fiction writer who works across different genres. His most well-known books are in the LitRPG genre.

The novel “Through Death” is the second in the tetralogy “Perimeter Defense.” The main character is an excellent tactician in games devoted to space battles. He’s hired as a fleet commander to lead the largest battles in game worlds. But one day, the hero receives an unusual offer: he must secretly take the place of another admiral in a game he’s never heard of. It’s hard to refuse— the reward is fantastic. Yet agreeing isn’t easy either. Because he’ll have to play as a character with a terrible reputation, off-putting looks, and a taste for forbidden substances.

With brilliance, the hero begins a career as a fleet commander— which earns him many enemies. And even questions arise about the game itself, the biggest of which is: is this really a game for sure? In the second book of the series, the newly appointed commander of a unified space fleet, trying to save himself from enemies, summons the aliens’ fleet onto himself. Will he win this battle, and what will be his fate next? The answer is in the audiobook.