The Debut Project (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781068767753)

Every great invention needs a first victim.

Felix is a pacifist engineer whose inventions have a tendency to maim. Kolya is his long-suffering partner who'd rather not die for someone else's idealism. Together, they owe a very large debt to a very dangerous man, the kind who sends his bodyguard Dullard to do the talking... and Dullard doesn't talk much.

To survive, they'll need to pull off their first real engineering job, keep their friend Nina's tavern from going under, and avoid the attention of every criminal outfit in City N (Spoiler: they will fail miserably).

Set in a fairy-tale anarcho-capitalist city, "The Debut Project" is a satirical novella in the tradition of Gogol and Guy Ritchie: heist comedy, body horror, and love letter to the kind of trouble only good intentions can cause.