Knights of Forty Islands

The first novel by Sergei Lukyanenko, the creator of the "Night Watch". Tough and exciting adventure story of boys and girls, "thrown out" of our world - and thrown into the world of Forty Islands. In a world where they have to fight with each other. Before the victory - or until death. The game? Almost a game. Only losers die - really ... In space, on a distant planet, the scouts have created a civilization Lotan proving ground - a little like the world's archipelago. The purpose of the alien - to prepare the Earth for future colonization. Group of young people of the earth for them to become "guinea pigs". Storms and ghosts, strange rituals, rules poluigrovye very real fights and wars ... How to sort out this bloody game, a fictional evil alien intelligence?