Fayroll Series

Step into a future in which advanced technology creates a virtual world with superior capabilities that allow players to experience real-world sensations. The popularity of the RPG game Fayroll is growing by the day, attracting millions of users to this alternate reality. What is the secret of Fayroll? What makes it so different from other games? Our protagonist, Harriton Nikiforov, is an everyman - a binge-drinking tabloid column reporter who has settled for the humdrum of the everyday, with a job that pays the wages, a neurotic girlfriend who gives him migraines and a boss that gives him constant grief. Tasked with a new assignment, Harriton suddenly finds himself ripped away from his normal routine of Moscow society life to a journalistic quest of sorts that leads him deep into the realm of the virtual gaming world of Fayroll. With explicit orders to write a series of fluff pieces on the game and its developers, he grudgingly accepts the assignment, but soon finds himself enthralled by the virtual fantasy world and its amazing quests, unpredictable challenges, and nearly endless possibilities. Harriton is reincarnated as a warrior named Hagen and becomes a full participant in the fantasy world, plunging into the exciting world full of action, quests, humor, legendary weapons, and ancient secrets. He meets faithful and courageous comrades and outwits those who are trying to hunt him. In this world, the thirst for success and vanity of high-level players in pursuit of legendary objects spills into the real world, where high-stakes bets are made on the success of the virtual characters. Harriton, as Hagen, unwittingly enters into the Fayroll world where events and decisions that he makes in the virtual space start to deeply affect his own reality. His unpredictable character, perseverance, and excitement attract the attention of powerful gamers and influential Moscow elite with a vested interest in Fayroll's outcome. It is not long before he realizes that this fantastic world (created according to the best canons of cult games, Warcraft and Lineage), conceals many dangers. Can he pass all the tests? Fayroll is more than a novel, it's a brilliant synergy of fantasy fiction and online gaming. It gives the listener the best of both worlds. The first novel of the 13-part epic series Fayroll has captivated Russians countrywide and was voted the 2014 new fantasy book of the year. Andrey Vasilyev's masterpiece More Than a Game is now available to the English-speaking world. Join us in this breathtaking narrative that takes both its main character and the listener deep into the heart of the virtual gaming universe and explore the fantasy series that has captured the imagination of the Slavic world. An Author's Republic audio production.

Get ready for more epic battles, legendary artifacts, and incredible quests in the highly anticipated second Fayroll story. As Harriton's Fayroll articles spark interest and his career picks up, he remains Hagen the Warrior, but still, a lucky noob who stumbles across a highly coveted hidden quest. He must save the four Dryad sisters. Starting with Ogina in the East, he haphazardly begins his journey on the Long Road East only to realize that the game is beginning to affect his real life. He manages to come out of many dangerous situations unscathed; happily switching between two worlds; making new friends and facing foes along the way. But Harry is also forced to pursue a real-life mission inside the game world that shows the thin line between the two worlds is becoming much thinner. It is only a matter of time before he starts asking himself some hard questions. What if his luck runs out? Or, more importantly, is he playing his own game or is he being manipulated? He is going to find abandoned temples, visit the Cursed Village, fight the Serpent King of the Nagas, and deal with epic monsters, all of which is accompanied by clashes of swords and sorcery and epic clan wars in this epic MMORPG. Action and adventure are hiding around every corner just waiting to be awakened. After Andrey Vasilyev's More Than a Game became an instant success with readers in Russia and worldwide, he continued developing the popular Fayroll series. According to many readers, The Road East, Vasilyev's second LitRPG novel, is every bit as good as his first, if not better. The Road East not only develops the virtual reality of Fayroll but also the real world parts of the story much more than the first novel. It's not just about new assignments, new employers or even a new girlfriend. The depiction of the offline world is now on par with that of the gaming world " a rare find in a LitRPG book. Vasilyev is certainly growing as a writer. His characters are becoming more and more rounded, dynamic and versatile " and even psychologically convincing. The author also continues his engaging detail and sharpness with almost cinematic clarity. The Road East is a gripping mix of dialogue and action, mixed with a characteristic sense of humor comprised of self-irony and mild mockery, never going too far but adding color and flavor to the story. Andrey Vasilyev started writing in his late thirties, because, by his own admission, he ran out of things to read. However after his first two books gained nearly instant critical acclaim, he gave serious thought to giving up his banking career and went on to become one of the top authors in the relatively new, but instantly hugely popular, LitRPG genre. An Author's Republic audio production.

Harry's back! The even more anticipated third audiobook from the best-selling Fayroll series is here. With even more epic battles, challenging quests and even rarer items. Following on from "The Road East", Harriton's work has been very well received, and his new bosses are pleased with him. Seemingly everything is going well, as he enjoys visiting Fayroll more and more and spending time with his new girlfriend, Vika. But is everything as it seems? Can things stay so positive with him? After a visit from his ex-girlfriend's brother and a meeting with Raidion's Security, it seems the real world might be much more of a dangerous place for him than ever before. He will begin to question how deep he is in this whole project, but with support from his new girlfriend and his team working on The Fayroll Times, maybe everything will be fine? However, this is just outside of the game. In the game, he joins 'The Hounds' on a quest through the Northern Mountains and through the mines filled with terrifying and deadly creatures to continue his quest to find the Dryad Sisters, but not before making even more in-game enemies, meeting royalty and saving kidnapped princesses. "Winds of Fate" continues the best-selling and ever-popular "Fayroll" series with the author's great sense of humor, adventure and storytelling skills. This book carries on developing the "Fayroll" world and also further develops life in the real world. This story has an equally seductive balance between the real world and virtual world, where both settings smoothly complement each other. Vasilyev is showing how much of a writer he is. Every Fayroll book gets better and better. His characters continue to develop and become more real to the reader. His attention to detail and cinematic descriptions have also developed giving the reader a captivating and entertaining read. "Winds of Fate" is certainly a boundless mix of action, dialogue, humor and colorful descriptions. Andrey Vasilyev started writing in his late thirties, because, by his own admission, "he ran out of things to read." However, after his first two books gained nearly instant critical acclaim, he had to give serious thought to giving up his banking career and went on to become one of the top authors in the relatively new, yet insanely popular, LitRPG genre that brings together cyberpunk, classic sci-fi, and fantasy. Fortunately for his readers, who had voted his debut novel "More Than a Game" the "Best Book of the Year 2014", he never looked back and continued working on his now-bestselling "Fayroll" series.