The World of Evil Spirits. Volume 2. Book 1

This is a story about how to survive without becoming utterly hardened, and how to find yourself in a world where any mistake costs a life. The main character is a creature that at first is simply called “Ei,” and later — Boomba and Scorpion. It comes into the world at the very bottom of the vast City — among trash, rats, and “jackals,” street gangs that keep the slums in fear. It does not remember a family and does not know what care feels like, but it has animal instincts, a sharp mind, and a stubborn desire to live.

Clawing its way out of the filth and into the ranks of the “trained monkeys” with one of the jackals, it gradually realizes: the real masters of the City are not the gangs at all. Above them there stand mysterious “Elder Brothers,” and even higher, beyond the walls of aristocratic mansions, the games of senators and generals are played out—and the Hunters act: the Empire’s ruthless special service.

Its life hurls it from torture basements into the privileged school of the Hunters, and then—into a deadly perilous expedition through the mountains with a caravan. There it encounters betrayal and death—and with a threat far worse: a force that the human mind is unable to explain.

A dark yet fascinating fantasy about growing up, loyalty, revenge, and the price of becoming from prey into hunter. For readers who value a tight plot, vivid characters, and a world that is both frightening and captivating.