This is the Russian “Matrix.” Cruel, inhuman, and hopeless. A young undercover detective accidentally catches a virus developed in the laboratories of psychotronic warfare. It all begins in August Moscow and ends on September 11 in New York.
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A young criminal-investigation officer happens, by accident, to be at the scene of an operation by an unknown special service. From that second on, his life becomes a living hell. From now on, he is not an ordinary person, but a digital person—“a digital human.” The digital person lives by different laws, in a different reality, and plays the terrible survival game called “Rugnarrek”—“The Last Battle.” No one knows who wrote the Rugnarrek program; it is impossible to extract the computer virus from one’s consciousness, and you can’t find the Host of the game. In virtual reality, everything is like in real life: fight or die, because God is on the side of the winner. But “The Last Battle” may become the last of all wars in human history.
A popular writer, Oleg Markeyev, intrigues the reader not so much with the plot itself—always expertly twisted—as with the combination of fiction and reality. Widely known facts, information from closed sources, and the author’s versions come together into a puzzling mosaic you’ll have to unravel until the very last page.