Earth. The near future. The USA and Russia are creating a joint ownership. The first ship with the "Alderson propulsion" leaves the solar system. The first interstellar colonies are founded. The armed forces of the United States and Russia unite into the Space Fleet of the Co-Ownership...The great Exodus begins - the era of space colonization. The Earth is slowly dying. The future belongs to the colonies, only people who KNOW how to do it PROFESSIONALLY will survive. Such as the commander of the mercenary legion John Christian Falkenberg!

Author's note These novels are part of the “history of the future” cycle, in which the action of “The Midge in the Apple of God” takes place "; he describes the events preceding this novel. The battle in the XIX chapter of part two of “Falkenberg's Legion” is based mainly on the real experience of the Korean War of the Ethiopian Imperial Guard lieutenant Zeneke Asfou.