A centuries-old dagger, taken during a robbery attack on a jeweler, strangely links a medieval sect of professional killers and founders of terror—the Assassins—with an international terrorism leader who hid for years during the Chechen war in an impregnable mountain fortress.
He is almost invulnerable, but unexpectedly, a “third force” appears on the territory of the republic—attacking both federal troops and brutally wiping out field commanders and detachments of the mujahideen. So which side is the tightly classified special operations and combat group “Sandal” on? And what is the ultimate purpose of their actions—seemingly chaotic and contradictory, yet in reality carefully and cleverly planned?