Agreements with the kibs and with the only surviving taikun give Sergey Belov many new opportunities, but risks increase significantly as well. With each day, he gets pulled deeper and deeper into a tangled web of intrigues in the post-apocalyptic world created on Earth after the war with the Alien. Sergey is forced to hide his true plans from everyone involved in this brutal game—even from those who are already his friends or might become them.