Control Burst

The Control Release is a fantastic novel by Andrey Livadny, genre: action sci-fi. If you end up in the Zone of Exclusion even once, it will never let you go. So the former stalker Shtopor, who left the surroundings of Chernobyl long ago, decides to return to retrieve the stash left on the Cordoned area. A lot has changed in the Zone during his absence, so Shtopor hires two experienced stalkers as guides—Inok and Guron. They still don’t know that they’ve signed up for a deadly operation where they’ll be opposed by special services, the military, and the legendary stalker faction “Monolith.” And Shtopor himself has a heavy and grim secret—more dangerous than all the mutants and treacherous traps of the Zone…