About the book: 2016 / Thirty years of studying the mysterious Area X have not borne fruit. Expeditions sent there at best return empty-handed - and more often they do not return at all. A secret government organization designed to reveal the secrets of the Zone is marking time, and its employees are either quietly going crazy from hopelessness, or they themselves are subtly and terribly changing under its influence. Now Area X has gone on the offensive, and people have nothing to oppose it. The final volume of the Area X trilogy reveals the secrets of the past and present to answer the question: does planet Earth have a future??