The “Golden Collection” series continues with the second novel by Vasily Orekhov about the stalker Khemul—“Kidnapping the Black-by-Chernobyl way.” When a loved woman is in danger, you very quickly forget about mutants, anomalies, and your promise never to return to the Zone of Exclusion. The infected lands still pose a threat to anyone bold enough to cross the Perimeter, but Khemul has no choice: his path leads straight into the epicenter of the catastrophe, to the Fourth power unit of the Chernobyl NPP. And from there, as one cartoon ostrich once said, no one has ever come back.