The Borderlands are several regions torn from our world into the edges of eternal cold. And Fort is both the heart of the Borderlands and its bottom: an ice-cold, thickly frozen sewer, home to people who are hardly friendly—people for whom the value of human life is often comparable to the price of a crate of bullets or a box of stewed meat.
Falling any lower isn’t possible, but sometimes fate trips you—forcing you to throw away a well-established business and run wherever your eyes can see in search of a new place under the sun. Still, even where it’s warm, you shouldn’t relax. And even the once-successful businessman Yevgeny Apostol will have to confirm this on his own skin. The work waiting for him in Severorechensk at first doesn’t seem especially dangerous…