Only I could have ended up with something like this: spending years fighting crime, dying a day before retirement, and getting as a “reward” a voucher for 1980. Now my area is full of devils—speculators, night watchmen—vampires, and activist witches hiding among ordinary Soviet citizens. And my ultra-secret mission is to make sure this motley crew doesn’t “flash” their real faces and doesn’t get in the way of life for an honest local officer.