The world of the Chernobyl Zone is mysterious and cruel, hostile to humans and attracting adventurers and fortune hunters who call themselves stalkers - on the eve of new events that can change not only the Zone, but the entire Earth. Is there a connection between the emergence of the Chernobyl Zone and biblical prophecies about the end of the world? What brought the fashionable American journalist to the Zone and what really happened to him there? What is the fate of the missing translator Ksenia, who accompanied the journalist? Who killed the stalker Mishka Bandura, one of the patriarchs of the Zone? A complex tangle of mysteries must be unraveled by the young stalker Sashka Maly, who became Bandura’s heir. However, the legacy of the deceased stalker can bring not only a solution to the strange events, but also death to anyone who dares to penetrate the deepest secrets of the Zone. My little gift to the fans of the game “Stalker”, of which I myself am one. The final version of the text. Numerous corrections and changes have been made.