About the book: 2017 / Sergei Krotov, an earthling who found himself in the army of the Star Empire against his will, never managed to graduate from the Special Forces Academy, where he was sent after the successful completion of the operation on the planet Zorn. The Empire is once again under threat. To find out the plans of an unknown race that is capturing one planet after another, Krotov is included in a secret mission to the planet that was attacked first. Unfortunately, modern high-tech weapons of the civilized worlds are powerless here and Sergei has to act as he once did on Earth…