The adventures of Captain Ivan Berezov and his comrades, familiar to readers from the first book of the new series by Sergei Tarmashev, continue! Emissions follow one after another, and increasingly large areas of the taiga in the Ukhta region are transformed into a mysterious and deadly Zone. But people who have made it their craft to mine metamorphites generated by the Area and trade in state secrets of the Motherland, as well as their customers, foreign residents, are not afraid of anomalies, terrible mutants, or the living dead. And only one force - the Special Operations Detachment of RAO Areal - is capable of resisting those who have fully known the price of greed...