A well-armed group of seasoned stalkers sets out to search for the legendary field of artifacts and disappears somewhere under Chernobyl. The stash that the expedition is supposed to retrieve promises enormous profit—so two mercenaries, a former paratrooper and the best specialist in artifacts in the Zone, agree to find the missing ones. They will have to cross Chernobyl, long abandoned by people, force their way through Pripyat, and reach the source of new unusual anomalies, to trigger a new—seemingly impossible—catastrophe…
The author of this book is one of the scriptwriters of the game "S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky," and he is well acquainted with all the secrets of the Zone—its hidden side, inaccessible to both newcomers and experienced players.