Finally finished a novel based on Stalker. I started it a few years ago, then gave it up, and now I’ve decided to finish it quickly, now that I have time. In general, don’t shoot the pianist - he played as well as he could.” Of course, the Zone was replete with all sorts of dangers, be it pockets of increased radiation, bloodthirsty mutants, disastrous anomalies, that’s why it’s a zone. But now the threatening scythe of death has taken the form of not a bloodsucker or “ "mosquito baldness", but just banal bandits-marauders who decided to profit from the swag of a lonely stalker. On the Cordon, as the outer territories of the Zone were colloquially called, there were many gangs of these hyenas in human form, engaged in robbing stalkers who were returning from the deep regions of the Zone. There were. there are serious criminals here, and just all sorts of punks. Stalker clans periodically organized sweeps of bandit bases, exterminating them mercilessly, but as they say, a holy place is never empty, some lovers of easy money were replaced by others. And now, apparently, this is exactly the case...”< /p>