SVETLYACHOK

Twelve ampules. A shift of eras. One formula for survival.In 1978, in a classified KGB laboratory, "Svetlyachok" was born—a gas that leaves no trace, save for sudden cardiac arrest. In 1991, as a great empire collapsed, a single batch of this poison vanished, settling in an ordinary apartment.For the Serebryakovs, these ampules became a cursed treasure. By guarding another man's secret, they were pulled into the gears of a changing world: from the bloody turf wars of the nineties to the cynical power plays of the aughts. But a trail of blood follows every ampule—from the theater halls of "Nord-Ost" to the stadiums of Grozny.While the Colonel, a man of a thousand faces, plays his chess game upon the ruins of history, "Svetlyachok" continues to glow in the dark, eroding the souls of those who hoped to profit from it.