Andrei Ogonovsky, an old space wolf who had to use his trusty blaster more than once, never forgot about his main purpose. A servant of the god Aesculapius, a doctor, a man with golden snakes on his shoulder straps, he saved the lives of other people, sometimes risking his own. But the hour came when he had to become the savior of an entire planet... And when the battles of the space war died down and he returned to his native Oxdam, instead of a well-deserved rest, he had to fight with a dirty pack that united cannibal swamp bandits and polished businessmen.