This world is familiar to you. It’s a world of stalkers and bandits, looters and soldiers, anomalies and artifacts. Surrounded by the Perimeter—an unforgiving world ruled by wolfish laws—this is the Zone. The legendary Cartographer has disappeared, and three stalkers set out to find him—only to fall into a deadly trap.
To get out, the stalkers must take a dangerous path through the Rift and the Mercury Lake—where no one has ever returned. They will meet a ghost train and end up in the lair of the Vivisector. Meanwhile, the cultists of the Black Brotherhood do not sleep—well-trained killers ready to do anything for their strange, mysterious goals. Two major factions hunt for the Cartographer at once… So what secret does this man hold? And is he even human—or something else?
Old world. Old heroes. New evil!