The fate of people is unpredictable. What would have happened if philology student Andrei Egorov had not had a steady hand, an accurate eye, and if the university had a military department that gave a deferment from conscription?.. But there was no department, but there was a first class in shooting - and this led to the transformation of a linguist into an army counterintelligence sniper. Andrei was “lucky” to find himself in a zone of a man-made disaster populated by warring armed groups. In the largest one, he quickly becomes a person close to the leader, who one day calls Andrei to his place and informs him that there is a difficult task, and only he, the former contract sergeant Egorov, can complete it...