At school they laugh at Alfred Kropp, the girls shy away from him, he is a complete zero at football. A young orphan lives with a poor uncle who works as a security guard in a large company and passionately dreams of becoming rich. Alfred sees the future as planned. This is a typical fate of a loser. This is what it would have become if my uncle had not been tempted by a dangerous scam. A prominent businessman unexpectedly gives him an order to steal a valuable item from the office of the head of the company. Actually, the nephew will have to steal, and his uncle will provide cover. Neither Alfred nor his guardian know that the very existence of humanity is at stake. You need to steal the famous sword Excalibur, protected by the descendants of the Knights of the Round Table. And before Alfred understands what is really happening, the legendary blade he obtained falls into the hands of a servant of darkness... For the first time in Russian! From the bestselling author of The Fifth Wave!