Piter: Special Edition

Piter: Special Edition is a novel by Shimun Vrochek, written as part of the Metro 2033 universe. It's an updated edition of the 2010 novel Piter with some corrections and additional material. Released in November 2019 as part of the Metro 2035 Universe, this is the twenty-first book in the premium series.

Synopsis
Twenty years have passed since the monstrous war that turned the Earth into ruins. St. Petersburg is a city of cold earth and cold water. Life on the surface is impossible, few people live in the subway tunnels...

Ivan, an experienced digger, sets out to recover the generator stolen from his home station. Ivan does not yet know that the most difficult thing will not go - the most difficult thing will be to get back. And to survive.

"Piter: Special Edition" is a hard-hitting and uncompromising author's version of the bestselling novel that came out in 2010. To date, more than a hundred thousand copies have been sold and the novel has been translated into six foreign languages. The publication includes bonus materials.

Story
A young digger at Vasileostrovskaya, Ivan Merkulov, goes to the abandoned Primorskaya Station to get a wedding present for his fiancée Tanya. After a fight with a mutated octopus and his return home, Ivan meets his stoon-to-be wife.

The night before the wedding, Ivan and his diggers are urgently summoned by the commandant of the Postyshev Station. It transpires that a diesel electric generator has been stolen and that patrolman Efiminyuk has been killed. An interrogation of a soldier from Admiralteyskaya reveals that Muscovites from Mayakovskaya and Ploshchad Vosstaniya, known as the curb-cutters, were involved. These events caused the beginning of the war between the Primorsky Alliance and curb-cutters. A military training campaign begins...

Interesting Facts

 * The reissue is timed to coincide with the release of Piter: Battle of the Twins", the third entry of the Piter: The Underground Blues'' trilogy.
 * The author has significantly revised the text from 10 years ago. It's not just about scenes that allow at least an 18+ rating, but also about eliminating bloopers and a general polishing of the text. This edition also includes two bonus stories and an author's afterword.