The Silver Horse opens for Artyom Novikov the secret of Genghis Khan’s grave. It leads Artyom and Professor Nefedov through the glaciers and mountain passes of the Hindu Kush. In an inaccessible mountain valley, Novikov falls in love with Telli, a beauty and the daughter of the mahando chieftain.
Wandering through чужі lands, Artyom and Nefedov end up in a valley where time has stopped. Here ancient Scythians and officers of the Russian White Guard live side by side, Alexander the Great’s warriors and Chinese soldiers of Chiang Kai-shek’s army. A mysterious chronospasm steals fourteen years from Artyom’s life, and, by miracle, surviving the labyrinth of anomalous zones, he finds himself in Russia of 1994. Novikov doesn’t recognize his country. His childhood friend Vitek has become a criminal authority. Vitek offers Novikov to become a killer and kill young Moscow entrepreneur Andrey Gumilyov…