For the first time in Russian - one of the main novels of the American magical realist Lucius Shepard, the author of "Valentine" and "Colonel Rutherford's Colt", "Flies" and "Louisiana Sunset" already familiar to Russian readers. New York artist David Mingolla fell under the army call and went to Latin America to carry democracy with bayonets. For him, the jungle turns into a Borgesian garden of forking paths, an arena of mental confrontation, where fatal beauties have serious plans for your brain and other organs, thought can kill, and drugged psychics on both sides try to influence the course of hostilities.