About the book: 2011 / She is the product of a man-made disaster. Nuclear warheads are aimed at it from all sides. They are ready to destroy it on the first order - if they suddenly see in it even the slightest threat to humanity. Zone. Everything kills here: anomalous “fields” and traps, plants and animals, mutants and people. The air here is saturated with death. He is cut through by heavy sniper bullets, heated by the hellish heat of hot sand pits, and shaken by the artillery volleys of the stalker's armored train. But this stops few people. Artifact hunters and adventurers enter the Zone. TV journalist Kostya Saburov also goes here. The zone is expanding deeper. A Hole opens in it, a world unlike any other, full of artifacts. And everyone is looking for the Heart of the Hole. There is the most desired artifact. The Golden Ball. People are ready to risk their lives to possess it. For this they are ready to take the lives of other people. What lengths will journalist Saburov be willing to go to??