The Death Zone got its name for a reason, and finding a safe place there is futile—even if it seems you know it like the back of your hand. Much-experienced stalker, known as Leshy, had to verify this once again. This time, his routine journey to the calmest location, Sosnovy Bor, turned into a close encounter with mysterious hydro-mechs and other, even more unbelievable creations of Technos. And the ominous figures in naval uniforms of the long-gone Third Reich were far from the most dangerous among them…