A routine business trip to the capital turned into an unexpected encounter for the manager, Vitya Blinov, with representatives of an alien intelligence. But the blue-skinned little people somehow didn’t want to negotiate or show him the achievements of their civilization—they decided to use him instead.
For experiments. Apparently, it wasn’t meant to be for Vitya to end his life on a laboratory table or in a freezer chamber. A series of incredible events—ones that would never have appeared to Blinov even in a delirious fever dream—continued with his sale into slavery, an unexpected rescue, and a job as an interstellar garbage collector with prospects for quick career growth. But the unpredictability doesn’t end with the Earth business world…