The Third World War ended against the will of its participants...The monstrous “peacemaker” was the Robb virus, which wiped out most of the Earth’s population. The senior sergeant of the Arctic Brigade, Alexei Isaev, faced a difficult choice: either bury himself alive in a bunker, isolated from the outside world, and turn into a rat, eating up supplies made in peacetime, or face all the nightmares of the post-apocalyptic world. Survive and win or lose and die...