About the book: 2016 / In the golden mountains of Altai, on the Ukok plateau, lives a black owl - the awakened spirit of a shaman. On moonlit nights, she flies out of her stone tower and flies silently against the background of the stars to shoot the next traveler with a poisonous arrow. The victims of the black owl - exclusively men - disappear without a trace, and when they appear again, they rave about unicorns, the underworld and windows into a parallel world. Topographer Andrei Terekhov does not believe in mysticism and attributes these tales to someone’s wild imagination, peculiarities of local folklore and banal attacks of delirium tremens. He is supported in this belief by his old friend Zhora Repey, the head of the border post, but one gets the feeling that the old warrior has his own scores to settle with the mysterious shaman. Therefore, when a chain of inexplicable accidents deprives Terekhov of his partners, and his own consciousness plays tricks on him, he realizes that he has been drawn into a strange game of invisible forces. He uses the free time to find out who is behind the legends about the black owl.?