About the book: year / The second disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant destroyed all people’s ideas about the world around them, dictating its own laws. But deadly anomalies, merciless monsters and other threats did not prevent people from exploring the Zone. Artifact hunters, criminals persecuted by the law, adventurers and ordinary naive fools went to the Zone. In the Zone they are called stalkers. Being in the Zone is illegal, but neither military cordons nor the machinations of the Zone itself could stop the stalkers. Each stalker comes to the Zone for different reasons. Mainly for the sake of profit from the sale of artifacts. But there are others who are trying to unravel the mysteries of the Zone... Stalker, nicknamed Misfire, did not pursue either one or the other goals. His life, ruined by himself, is finally ruined by the Zone. Misfire goes beyond the army cordon to a haven of exquisite traps and indomitable monsters to take revenge on the Zone for his alienation…