The collectible edition “Chuzhak-2” brings together, under one cover, the novels “Ranger,” “Action Universal,” and “Metr.”
This is a continuation of the famous cycle about a man who is transported into the harsh world of Arlanda, where only a few survive—and every new day turns into a test of endurance, set between the church, the Inquisition, and the vile creatures.
Igordravin’s storytelling is hard-hitting, fast-paced, with a vivid conversational tone—one of the reasons the cycle is especially loved by fans of classic battle fantasy.
A change of name has worked exactly as it should: people around no longer connect hunter Vlad Molniya, ranger Dalv the Jester, and the free baron Vlad el Stok as one and the same person. Almost no one in Arlanda is capable of unraveling this secret—except for the “weaver,” from whom you can’t hide. Kings and rulers, heads of orders, clerics—each one sees only one of his masks. And it is precisely this that saves the transported man from inevitable punishment, because his enemies only grow in number. But Vlad isn’t content with simply surviving. Now, at any cost, he intends to become… Count el Artois. On this difficult path, he may be helped—and of course, he will be helped!—not by three, but by four kings. The higher you climb the steep ladder of power, the…
The fall is that much more painful—this is clear. But from that height, you can see all the new details of the world—details capable of overturning the usual meaning of what’s happening…