About the book: 2004 / Kirk van Detcher is a former captain of the airborne brigades, and now a mercenary. A man who sells his ability to kill and survive in any conditions, even in the dangerous Labyrinth on the second planet of the Ankora system. A man who, unexpectedly for himself, radically changed the life of the Emperor, the fate of the entire Interstellar Empire of People and all other galactic races. And all because one day he was simply tired of being on a leash by the powers that be.