About the book: year / The deadly mysterious ZONA arose in the Astrakhan steppes, consuming a military city and a military cosmodrome. It destroys and brings back lives, makes a revolution in world politics and science, and turns a young contract soldier of the Soviet Army into a tracker-poacher, a traveler between the Moon and the Mesozoic, a hunter of dinosaurs and competitors from Pallasovka, a killer of people and the savior of humanity... to whom the former young The contract soldier and his new people - the “bedovans” - are treated less and less... and treated poorly. First book of the Zona trilogy (contains veiled foul language)