About the book: 2009 / What could a demoted FSB lieutenant colonel, a writer and a professional killer have in common? Fate brings Oksana Varentsova, Oleg Kraev and Semyon Pestsov together in one of the regional centers of the Leningrad region - a town called Peshcherka, located at the edge of vast swamps. It soon becomes clear that there, among the little-explored swamps, something difficult to explain, but truly fateful, is happening, about which the locals know, of course, more than the visitors, but prefer to keep their mouths shut... Moreover, the modest Russian Cave suddenly finds itself in the focus of interests of mystical personalities with all over the world - those who move in the flow of human history, like gamers through the levels of a computer game... Willy-nilly, our heroes are included in this game. Someone is trying to escape personal drama, someone is reaching out to the historical memory of their family and country, and someone is trying to unravel the rules of the game and is seriously considering the prospect of the end of the world, seemingly promised to humanity in 2012. And there is less and less time left…