A jobless journalist takes a job as a translator for a “new Russian” traveling to Belize to meet an old acquaintance. In Belize, he is mistaken for an FSB agent—since agents from practically all of the world’s intelligence services are already in the city. They are drawn there by strange phenomena in the local jungles. Although repeated expeditions found nothing, the main character agrees to the offer of an English intelligence officer to go together into the jungle, hoping to get sensational material for his article. Naturally, it would never occur to him to think about other eras, about wars in outer space, and about cosmic intrigues…