About the book: 2013 / The power of the Great Caliphate in most of Russia has been overthrown, but the resurgent Russian Federation continues to fight hard. After the hospital, special forces soldier Alexey Karabanov was supposed to return to the front to beat the “shakhs,” but at the very last moment he was sent with a company of recruits to the remote taiga of Eastern Siberia. There, among the mountains and forests, is the mysterious “New” mine - the Federation’s hope for victory in the war with the Caliphate. Sergeant Karabanov and his faithful friend Bato Ayusheev, fighters of the Baikal special squad, have to find out: why people are disappearing at the mine, what creatures have settled in the local taiga, and what kind of strange object is located in the depths of the mountain.