About the book: 2010 / April 2026. The zone is not what it used to be. Transnational corporations launched a vigorous activity, trying to turn it into a plant for the production of valuable artifacts. The landfill is the most delicious “piece”, and therefore has long been taken under control. But it is there that a well-equipped scientific expedition from the Physics Institute goes missing. For some reason, no one is in a hurry to look for physicists, and then a veteran stalker nicknamed Plumbum is sent to the Zone. He expects a regular trip to well-known places, but instead he gets involved in a series of dizzying and dangerous adventures. It seemed to Plumbum and his scientist friends that they knew everything about the Zone, but the anomalous territory threw up new mysteries for them. To solve them, you will have to look beyond the “wrong side” of the Zone, take part in a fierce gang war and penetrate where no one has been before.…