Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky is a cult science fiction novel, the most discussed Russian book in recent years. Circulation - half a million, translations into dozens of languages, plus a huge computer game! This post-apocalyptic story has inspired a galaxy of modern writers, and now they are together creating the Metro Universe 2033, a series of books based on the famous novel. The heroes of these new stories will finally go beyond the Moscow metro. Their adventures on the surface of the Earth, almost destroyed by nuclear war, exceed all expectations. Now the struggle for the survival of humanity will be waged everywhere! Stalker Sergei Istomin, nicknamed the Dane, does not value his life after the death of his wife. And gets involved in the most dangerous scrapes. He doesn't care about his own fate, but there is a girl who is far from indifferent to him. The only thing they have in common is that he still remembers his former life, and she was born in the subway and has only seen dark tunnels since childhood. She knows more about the ghosts and mutants that inhabit them than about the world above. Is she able to help an exhausted man save himself from himself?