Events in the life of chemical engineer Wally Smith line up in a strange sequence. Encephalitis, untimely death - and a new life in a new body and a completely unusual world, where the gods interfere in the affairs of people, where the planet has the shape of a torus, where swords are still the most terrible weapon... Dave Duncan's novel "The Way of the Warrior" opens the trilogy "The Seventh Sword" ", which is considered one of the most serious contributions of this author to the genre of "scientific fantasy".