Oleg Panin is an operative with paranormal abilities, a successful employee of the Directorate, which controls most of the inhabited worlds. The place of his next business trip is the Fortress, a remote bearish corner, a distant outpost of the Directorate in a strange world inhabited by Saracens, half-humans, half-ghosts. The task, it would seem, is clear - to investigate the incomprehensible disappearance of several employees of the Fortress, however, instead of a completely routine task, Oleg suddenly finds himself in the very heart of a political revolution. Not only Oleg’s career collapses - the very system he served has gone into disarray, and Oleg suddenly finds himself only a figure in a political game with an unknown number of participants. However, a decisive figure, endowed with free will, can change a lot...