“HAPPINESS FOR EVERYONE, FREE, AND LET NO ONE LEAVE OFFENSIVE!!!” These words were spoken by the stalker Redrick Shewhart at the bottom of the pit, having found the Golden Ball that fulfills any desire. This is how the famous novel by the Strugatsky brothers “Roadside Picnic” ends. But what happened next? For more than forty years, since the release of the cult work, fans of Russian science fiction have been asking themselves this question. And finally, Dmitry Sillov wrote a novel that is a direct continuation of the story of Red Shewhart. What awaits the famous stalker after he returns from the Zone to his native Harmont? How will his expressed desire affect the future of the distant Chernobyl exclusion zone and the fate of Sniper, well known to fans of the Stalker, Kremlin 2222 and Rose of the Worlds series?