The borderlands are several regions torn out of our world and cast into the lands of eternal cold. And Fort is both the heart of the Borderlands and its bottom. A frozen-through cesspool where not the friendliest people live—people for whom the value of human life is often comparable to the price of a box of cartridges or a crate of canned stew.
Fall any farther is simply impossible, but sometimes fate trips you, forcing you to abandon an established business and run anywhere your eyes look in search of a new place in the sun. Still, don’t relax even where it’s warm. And the once-successful entrepreneur Evgeny Apostol still has to learn this firsthand in Nororechensk. The job awaiting him there at first doesn’t seem especially dangerous…