Tasters of Death

The Zone believes in nothing. The Zone forgives no one. The Zone remembers everything.

For every action, sooner or later you’ll have to pay.

And it doesn’t matter whether you killed or—saved someone from death. You broke the Zone’s plans, and it will still make you taste death.

Stalker Igor Sotnik, known in Iskitim as Tryn-Trava, saves the “wrench”—the man a “black” stalker and criminal authority Kolya Sumrak left to die in the Zone. But good deeds are punishable: for Tryn-Trava, days of defeat, betrayal, and loss begin.

The duel with Sumrak starts—and the one who will judge him will be the Zone itself…