About the book: 2007 / Alex Creighton, a twenty-nine-year-old private detective, found himself in a difficult situation: the number of unpaid bills exceeded his creditworthiness. Therefore, he happily grabs a fantastically profitable (albeit suspicious) business offer from one of the leaders of a large holding. You need to find a missing employee and her computer with important information. The employer has a suspicion that his employee ran away and took refuge in the so-called Dark City - a kind of parallel reality with special properties and laws. The Dark City provides almost everything its visitor wants, so everyone wants to visit there. But not everyone can get into the Dark City, and those who can often must overcome a series of difficulties - both physical, mental, and economic. Moreover, for different individuals, the access possibilities are very different and depend on some properties of the person himself. Alex has the rare ability to visit the Dark City whenever he wants, which gives him a lot of advantages…