Lieutenant Stepan Alekseev of the Russian Marines is again in the back lines of the fascists—but this time not by his own will and not as part of a reconnaissance group. Urgently summoned by an order “from the very top” to Moscow, the senior lieutenant doesn’t make it to the capital. Instead of an audience with the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, Stepan will face new games with death in the icy winter mountains.
Will Alekseev be able to return covertly to Novorossiysk? Or will he choose a breakout with a fight? But it suddenly turns out that the fascists are preparing a powerful offensive against the “Malaya Zemlya” bridgehead. And the marine is at risk of ending up between the hammer and the anvil…