The protagonist of the series is the captain of the British Army Oswald Bastable . During his service in India, he will get into one of the temples and, during the earthquake that began, escapes through the tunnels. He gets to an alternative planet Earth, and from that moment his adventures in parallel universes begin. Each of the novels is a separate story and takes place on different planets of the Earth at different times. The third novel . Steel King. In 1941, the USSR (Union of Slavic Republics) is at war with Japan. And at this time, in the south of Russia, a Cossack uprising begins under the leadership of the fugitive monk Dzhugashvili and anarchist Nestor Makhno ....