Tests of a new device created by Russian physicists, carried out in Kamchatka, end unexpectedly and tragically. The developer of the “hole punch” dies, and FSB Major Veprev is sent to investigate the matter. However, the incident in the Far East turns out to be inextricably linked with no less tragic events in the anomalous zone in the Perm region, where Veprev’s friend and colleague Major Kashin is currently on a business trip. Together they manage to uncover the secret of the “dragon”, according to legend, that lives in these places, find the killers and learn about the role that the not at all good-natured and inquisitive “green non-men” have assigned to earthlings in their big galactic Game... Author’s website address: www. golovachev.ru