A combat mission abruptly ended my life. My long and eventful career as a special forces officer, full of successes and failures, is over. But fate had other plans and granted me a second chance. Spring of 1987, the USSR. It seems the war in Afghanistan is over, and the Soviet Union has strengthened its position in the Middle East. But Western powers are not settling down—they continue to build cunning plans. This won’t happen! First, though, I must make it out of the guarded area in the mountains on the Pakistan border and save an old friend who has been listed as missing for many months.