Roman Metch mertwih napisan sowmestno dwuma iswestneishimi pisatelami - Mariyei Semenowoi (Wolkodaw, Walkiria, Kudear) i Andreyem Konstantinowim (Banditsky Peterburg, Gurnalist, Swoi - tchughoi, Tulsky Tokarew). Redkaa istoritcheskaa dostowernost powestwowania sotchetayetsa sdes s napraghennim i kinematografitcheski wiwerennim detektiwnim sughetom. Daleky IX wek. W gorode Ladoge - perwoi stolice Sewernoi Rusi - ne ughilis dwa knasa, swoi Wadim i Rurik, priswanny is-sa mora. Wadimu prihoditsa uiti protch, i wot ughe w werhowyah Wolhowa krepnet nowoye poseleniye - budushy Nowgorod. Mogushestwenniye sili podogrewaut wraghdu knasei, delo idet k otkritoi woine. Sumeut li samiritsa dwa gordih woghda, i yesli sumeut, to kakoi cenoi budet kupleno ih primireniye.. Woleu sudeb w samoi gushe intrig okasiwautsa molodiye geroi powestwowania, i glawny is nih - odinoky wend Ingar, besstrashny i besghalostny woin, tchye semnoye prednasnatcheniye - naiti i hot cenou sobstwennoi ghisni wernut swashennuu relikwiu swoyego istreblennogo plemeni - sineoky metch Peruna, metch mertwih.