About the book: year / There are a lot of rumors about the Karmatian lands: they say there’s no crowd there because of the evil spirits. And there is also the most fertile land - the Garden of Eden, and that’s all. And the army of the Karmatians, they say, is innumerable. As they fight their way deeper into al-Ahsa, the caliph's warriors will discover that the rumors are false. Something is not visible to the evil spirits. The earth is the most ordinary. And the army of the Karmatians is quite quantifiable - it has a triple numerical advantage. Victories are gained at the cost of heavy losses, enemies return each time with renewed vigor, and an exhausting campaign deep into enemy territory turns into a nightmare worse than those that frightened idle storytellers. By the time the evil spirits finally appear, people will want only one thing: let this terrible dream come to an end. It doesn't matter which one. We urgently need to wake up from al-Ahsa - even to death. For death is better than what appears here before your eyes.