Until the reactors of the dilapidated nuclear power plant are shut down, Chernobyl may present the world with another nuclear disaster with unpredictable consequences, a disaster in which someone will warm their dirty hands and make a considerable fortune. For many years to come, the Chernobyl tragedy will remind itself of itself... The characters in the novel and the events that happen to them are fictitious. Any resemblance to real people, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

A figure flashed on the right hand. A black sheepskin coat, a machine gun. A head without a hat... Maxim Danilovich pressed the gas pedal all the way, and the car rammed the car, which had not yet dropped to end of a heavy metal beam. The beam was torn out of its fastening and thrown away. Pulling a pistol from his jacket pocket, Zinaida fell to the window and, grabbing the weapon with both hands, shot down through the glass somewhere. In response, machine gun fire lashed the car. But they had already broken through...