The response of the “black international” to the seizure of the inventor of “The Wrath of Allah”, Professor Mashtakov, by Sergei Tarkhanov was not long in coming. A full-scale military operation in Pyatigorsk confirmed: from now on, games with time and scientific experiments are moving into the phase of creating superweapons, which will lead to a war for world domination. The winner will be the one who first dares to step over the edge. Where? To the past? To the future? Into an alien reality, once seen by Tarkhanov and for some reason seemed strangely familiar?