A Perfect World

In a future where humanity has learned to harness a new form of energy, the Great Russian Empire has become the world's most advanced superpower—but its success hides terrible secrets. When Slavoj Moldova, the ruthless director of the Intelligence Agency, finally tracks down a dangerous terrorist called the Hollow, he sends a handpicked team to capture him. The team is led by Markov, a mysterious seventeen-year-old prodigy, and their target is Titan V3—a massive space station orbiting Earth. But the mission goes catastrophically wrong. The team loses all contact with headquarters. The station's security robots are hijacked and turned into deadly, mindless attackers. Worst of all, they discover five hidden nuclear bombs counting down to detonate—enough to destroy everything. While chaos erupts in space, rebellion ignites on Earth. A masked revolutionary named Robert V, who leads an underground resistance called BRAIN, hijacks every screen in the nation. He declares war on the government, calling its leaders parasites who must be removed. Then comes shocking news: Slavoj Moldova himself has been assassinated, throwing the Intelligence Agency into complete disorder. With no one in charge, a radical political faction called the Revolutionist Party prepares to launch a violent uprising at dawn. But some of their commanders begin to suspect something unthinkable—that their own leader might secretly be working for the enemy. The few remaining agents, including the bitter veteran Leon and the sharp-minded analyst Ivan, scramble to uncover the truth. What they find is far worse than terrorism. The empire's most closely guarded secret is a supercomputer called FATE M, which predicts the future—but it's powered by the living brain cells of one quintillion human beings. They also discover classified documents proving that the nation's leaders made a secret deal with foreign enemies ten years ago, selling out their own people. Now the entire country faces an even greater threat: hackers could break into the Global Tree network, a system that stores everyone's memories, and either erase them or replace them with false ones. Time is running out, trust has collapsed, and more people will have to die before anyone can claim they've created "a perfect world."