Sleeping in dirty places, eating yucky food, associating with seedy friends, and fighting someone else's wars -- that is the world of a soldier of fortune. Alex always considered himself as a rational man. When he faced a crisis, he tried to brush aside his emotions. He ignored the discomfort, subdued panic, and fought fear. Logic prevailed. He was a rational man. But... rational men do not see nightmares. They do not wake up in the middle of the night in cold sweat. The book is about an ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances. No, he did not fall into the net of malevolence accidentally....