They lost the battle, but the war is not over yet! Alexander "Falcon" Barkov and his comrades are forced to retreat and take refuge in mountain caves in order to gather strength and launch a counterattack on the lair of the Chief - the organizer of a totalitarian technocracy that is spreading around the world with the help of the global satellite network "Networld" and an invisible army of nanorobots. Only “Falcon” can save a sinking civilization, but to do this he needs to learn everything about the capabilities of the enemy’s new weapon, and he must also be ready to sacrifice his own life to save the lives of five billion “extra” people, who, according to the Chief, do not exist it makes sense to lead one into the Golden Techno-Age.