Metro 2034

Dmitry Glukhovsky

311 pages, Paperback

First published March 16, 2009

It's the year 2034. After a devastating war much of the world lies in ruins. Moscow is a ghost town. A few survivors retreated into the depths of the underground network to build a new civilization. They found only darkness...

At the Sevastopol station, cut off from the Metro, a man appears. Colonel Hunter. He fights a lonely war against the dark, journeying deep into the monster haunted depths of the tunnels. At his side is Homer, an old man who knows the legends of the Metro like no other and will write its history. When the two meet the 17-year-old Sasha, Homer believes he has found the found the perfect pair for his epic poem. But will they live to write the tale?

These are the voyages of Hunter.

The basis for the Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light computer games, Dmitri Glukhovsky's Metro novels are worldwide bestsellers and mark a new highpoint for Russian speculative literature.