“Game of Advance” - a science fiction novel by Alexei Gubarev, the second book of the series “On the Edge of Fortune”, combat science fiction, space science fiction, misfits. The triumphant return of the winner from the Arena, the amphitheater planet on which the fate of the worlds is decided, ends completely unexpectedly . Instead of his home, Fyodor ends up in a cell and is charged with double murder. But the politicians playing their games do not know who they decided to break. Our hero barely copes with this problem when he learns that most of the population is facing imminent death, and our planet is destined for a terrible fate. And now the cruiser of the disappeared race is rushing into outer space, in search of mothballed bases and secret caches, preparing to give a worthy rebuff to the slave owners who decided to turn the Earth into a field for growing drugs banned in the Alliance.