From the author of the best-selling books “Wolfhound”, “Valkyrie”, “Kudeyar”, “The Same and Skunk”! With the novel “The Game of Nothing”, Maria Semenova and Felix Razumovsky open the trilogy “Error “2012”. A game of nothing is an expression meaning that there are no monetary stakes in this game. There really are no cash bets. The stakes are higher. Much higher. The lives of heroes, the fate of humanity, the existence of which, according to the ancient Mayan prophecy, should end in 2012. What can connect time control experiments - and poisonous reptiles, disturbances in the Earth's magnetic field - and a secret sect, the American Statue of Liberty - and the regional center of the Leningrad region called Peshcherka? All this will turn out to be equipment and decorations of the Great Game, started in time immemorial and by who knows. What can a doctor of technical sciences have in common - and a professional killer, a voodoo sorcerer - and a Russian thief in law, a writer who writes about the unknown in history and nature - and an FSB colonel whose family died at the hands of terrorists? They all have to realize themselves as characters on the playing field. What will 2012 mean for humanity and why do ancient calendars end at this date? Is it because the fatal “game over” should sound, after which an invisible hand will press the “Reset” button? How to avoid ending up as a bunch of beaten pawns in the Great Game? And finally, what role will be played by the sacred rage of a sunny red cat, as if jumping from an ancient Egyptian fresco?..