The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to uninhabitable rubble and only a few score thousand survivors live on in the Moscow Metro - the biggest air-raid shelter ever built. It is a world without a tomorrow where feelings have given way to instinct - the most important of which is survival. But now a new and terrible threat has appeared and it is up to one young man to alert everyone. He holds the future of his the whole Metro in his hands and maybe the whole of humanity as well.

Dmitry Glukhovsky is a Journalism and Foreign Relations graduate of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Actually he is Russia Today`s roving reporter. From Algeria to Iceland, from Luxembourg to Kazakhstan, Glukhovsky has kept Russia Today viewers abreast of both breaking news and the results of major international gatherings. As correspondent he also took part in the Russian Polar expedition. In 2007, Glukhovsky got the Encouragement Award of the European Science Fiction Society in the prestigeous EuroCon contest in Copenhagen for his novel "Metro-2033". Apart from his native Russian, he speaks English, French, German, Hebrew and Spanish. His Metro novels have been international bestsellers and are the basis of the bestselling Metro computer game franchise.