Alexander Shulgin, and then Andrei Novikov, hoped that the douggurs—an encounter with which in one of the alternate timelines nearly cost Shulgin his life—would remain only an episode in their adventurous fate. However, the matter turns out to be far more serious, and the possibilities of new enemies are much more diverse. A real threat appears: the douggurs might capture the Earth of the Main Historical Sequence and bring an end to its further existence. The Andreev Brotherhood starts fighting across time and space once again. Now its arena is South Africa at the end of the 19th century. And not by chance—because the Anglo-Boer War raging there and then, which our contemporaries know at best from the novels of Conan Doyle and Boussenard, will have far more significance for the future than just being an episode in British colonial politics…