Vol. 1. Event Horizon

Leningrad, August 1984. The sunset of the great Soviet era.

The bestselling author of “Red Chains” sets out to investigate the mysteries of the Universe. A magnificent, multi-layered novel about the human choice that affects the fate of Earth: what begins as a detective story turns into scientific fiction, reaching the level of religious mysticism.

The tragic death of one of the authoritative representatives of the criminal underworld at first looks like suicide, and the horrifying circumstances of his death are explained by a sudden fit of madness. But the further the investigation proceeds, the more oddities, paradoxical riddles, and unbelievable events surface—and the narrative gradually expands across space and time, from the Big Bang to the present…