Victor Mukhin was lucky: not many people manage to see the warheads flying over a city. A large-scale nuclear conflict, it seemed, closed the history of mankind. But a secret installation, created in the midst of the Cold War, split the universe into parallel Layers. Dying in one of them, Mukhin woke up in the next. The new world gave Victor a new body, new memories, and a new death—though by no means the last…