Robert J. Szmidt - A Tower (2022)

2033 - twenty years after the nuclear war, the survivors of Wrocław, forced into sewers, are decimated not only by radiation sickness, mutant animals and plants, and epidemics, but the communities gathered in enclaves also fight merciless battles against each other for resources. Where they have completely run out of food, people resort to cannibalism. The former first lieutenant of the legendary Black Scorpions military unit, Ghost, although he spent the last fifteen years as a Teacher, in peace and quiet, raising his son, he is forced to stand in battle again and fight not only for his own fate, but for the fate of the rest of humanity forced underground, because in the Second World War the ideals of the Nazis who built tunnels under the city, promoting superiority, continue to be lived on by the elite who want to assert their former privileges at all costs. Manipulation, betrayal, deployment of biological weapons - nothing can stand in their way... Alone, a vengeful Spirit, tormented by the demons of his past and driven almost mad by the challenges of his present. But it far surpasses even his imagination, what kind of horrors await him on the way to the Tower...

The second volume of Robert J. Szmidt's large-scale trilogy of novels seasoned with social criticism, the direct continuation of Mélység, offers another series of amazing and chilling adventures in the underground maze of the Polish city of Wrocław, where man-eating monsters emerge not only from the ranks of wild animals.

Torony is the second volume of Szmidt's Metro trilogy.