In a world connected to the Earth, but in many ways different from our planet, a great empire is dying, falling apart. The outbreak of a world war completes the matter: weather and resonant blows fall on Lataniya, the allies turn away from it, regions are separated from the empire. Only a powerful, powerful hand can stop chaos. And such a person was found - Colonel-dictator Gamow. Tribune and demagogue, provocateur and prophet, he stops at nothing to save the country... One of the best books written by Sergei Snegov. A novel-prediction, a novel-warning... A warning that, it seems, has not yet expired...