The book is based on real events.
A powerful group of militants rushes toward Aleppo. Syrian troops cannot hold back the onslaught and are forced to turn to Russian command for help. A group “Alpha,” led by Lieutenant Colonel Daniil Avilov, is urgently sent to the combat zone. Its task is to bring down the enemy’s key targets with our VKS aircraft and suppress the advance. The main battle breaks out for a strategically important height that, together with Russian special forces, is held by a Syrian battalion. All efforts of the bandits are in vain—the height is impregnable.
Suddenly the situation changes: the Syrians unexpectedly retreat, leaving sixteen “Alphas” to withstand three hundred enraged thugs…