About the book: year / Danila Molodtsov, an alien from our time, during the times of Ancient Rus' managed not only to survive, but also to become a warrior. Now his path lies south, to Kyiv, where the capital Prince Vladimir rules. Danila is a security guard of a merchant caravan, whose path lies along roads, portages and rivers, past forests and swamps, where gangs of robbers are far from the most dangerous enemies. But if there are true friends nearby, the father of the squad and the girl he loves, then the road is more fun, and the enemies no longer seem insurmountable.