This world is familiar to you. A world of stalkers and bandits, marauders and soldiers, anomalies and artifacts. Surrounded by the Perimeter, a brutal world where wolf laws rule. 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 will have to take a dangerous path through the Shatter and the Mercury Lake, from which no one has returned. They will meet a ghost train and end up in the lair of the Vivisector. And the sectarians of the Black Brotherhood don’t sleep either—well-trained killers ready to do anything for their strange, mysterious goals.
Two major groups are hunting the Cartographer at once… What secret does this man possess? And is he even a man—or something else? The old world. Old heroes. New evil!