A terrorist is cunning in ways no one could imagine. A Chechen terrorist is doubly so. Who would have thought that in quiet Pereslavl a nest of militants from a field commander, Alimkhan, had been set up? Their goal is to shake Russian cities with a series of terrifying terrorist attacks. For that, they have everything: weapons, explosives, money, and suicide fanatics. But a veteran “Afghan”—Nikolai Rybabanov—knows that an officer’s honor is a weapon stronger than explosives. He can look death in the eye, only he doesn’t like meeting it head-on. Let the militants do that—he will help them…