“Glaird” is a science-fiction novel by Denis Vladimirov, the first book of the eponymous cycle. Genre: action sci-fi, reincarnations/portal fantasy. After ten years of service in the armed forces of the United Earth Alliance, elite saboteur of the early 24th century loses his comrades and his beloved friend. He quits the army and decides to become a colonist, traveling to a parallel world resembling Earth in the distant past. But during the “transition,” something goes wrong. And the fighter’s mind is transferred into the body of a young aristocratic boy who faces captivity—and then is assigned the main role on a sacrificial altar. There’s no time for speculation: it’s “here and now,” you have to act. How? As they taught him—and as circumstances demand. That is: no mercy, no pity, and no regret.