Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky is a cult science fiction novel, the most discussed Russian book in recent years. Circulation - half a million, translations into dozens of languages, plus a grandiose computer game! This post-apocalyptic story inspired a galaxy of modern writers, and now they are together creating the Metro Universe 2033, a series of books based on the famous novel. The heroes of these new stories will finally go beyond the Moscow metro. Their adventures on the surface of the Earth, almost destroyed by nuclear war, exceed all expectations. Now the struggle for the survival of humanity will be waged everywhere! Never before has such a large-scale and carefully clandestine operation been carried out in the Moscow metro! The intelligence services and leadership of the Hansa, Polis, the Red Line and the Fourth Reich are seriously concerned about the appearance of “bystryanka” - an incomprehensible and deadly genetic disease that has been recorded at a variety of stations over the past year. And although so far the number of sick people is only in the dozens, the problem is different: they all either die before the doctors get to them, or disappear without a trace. There is a suspicion that this is the work of the Orderlies - members of a secret organization that, for some reason, eliminates or kidnaps such people...