The heroes of the novel, brave guys from Sergei Pastukhov’s team, the `magnificent five`, receive an assignment to blow up the largest nuclear power plant on the Kola Peninsula, the Northern NPP. The boys become hostages to the interests of an international oil company and a terrorist-maniac long hunted by Interpol. The explosion will claim hundreds of thousands of lives, and all the countries of Europe will suffer — all it takes is pressing the button…