The world war began in the Middle East. Muslims living in Europe supported their co-religionists. A wave of terrorist attacks swept across the European Union. Then an atomic explosion occurred in the German city of Cologne. The familiar world collapsed... In the fire of the flaring global conflict, Russia could not stand aside. The new authorities professing liberalism hastily announced mobilization and began to gather militia. The task of turning a motley crowd of men, most of whom had not even served military service, into soldiers fell on the shoulders of retired paratrooper captain Alexander Karpov. He had only a few days at his disposal. And his line of defense was supposed to be the last...