For the first time in Russian - the newest novel by the author of the Cyberspace and Bridge Trilogy, The Difference Machine, Pattern Recognition and The Land of Ghosts. The main visionary of our time has finally returned back to the future! Burton served in the Marine Corps, in the elite unit of the First Haptic Intelligence. When he returned from the war, he was not found to have post-traumatic syndrome, but was given a disability pension. And then he got a secret part-time job: testing a new computer game. But one day he needed to go to a neighboring city, and he asked his sister Flynn to replace him at the next beta testing session. Nothing complicated, they say: you patrol the perimeter of three floors of a high-rise building on a quadcopter and drive away the paparazzi dragonflies. But Flynn was not prepared for what she would see there: whether it was just a game or a real murder. And where is it - there?