The reader is presented with a panorama of dark changes on Earth after the Third World War, which opened the way to world domination for China. After the fighting with the use of the so-called “black light”, America and Russia are extremely weakened, Europe, one might say, is gone, and the rest of the countries simply do not have sufficient potential to seriously resist the Celestial Empire. The plot of the novel centers on the fate of a young man, Evgeny Varlamov, accidentally becoming the owner of the secret of the “black light”, the discovery of which provoked the disaster. This terrible secret can either destroy humanity or give all people another chance. That is why the intelligence services of the only remaining superpower, China, are hunting for her. The novel “In the Lands of Sunset” is not just a fascinating fantasy story, but, above all, a kind of “appeal” to all thinking people. Against the backdrop of the dominance of primitive “action” plots or template tales about “fictional kingdoms,” there are not many works with such depth of thought, a coherent, exciting plot and high-quality text.