About the book: 2017 / And again, as in the days of the Holocaust, the plains and mountains of the Centrum, frozen in everyday life, trembled. Tank columns rush across the borders, wrapping withered steppe grass around their tracks. Outposts are burning, and the fighters of the Border Guard themselves are forced to direct their weapons against those whom they could not even consider as enemies. Trouble does not bypass the fighters of the 16th outpost - Khmel, Grandfather, Drummer. New dangers and new roads await them: they will find out what is happening at the bottom of the Rift, uncover the mystical secrets kept by the monkey tribe, and even see with their own eyes the mysterious and sinister world of the Hearth…