About the book: 2002 / The great powers of Earth divided among themselves the rights to colonize the planets of the solar system. This was supposed to be a guarantee of peace. However, this only became the reason for new conflicts... conflicts no longer of this earthly kind - on a cosmic scale. Thirty marines, not afraid of either God or the devil, went to the Martian base... Thirty “tough guys” who made war their profession did not yet know that very soon - and almost by accident - they will find themselves drawn into a dangerous game. A game in which the bet is to unravel the mystery of humanity’s “intellectual cousins.”…