About the book: 2020 / You never know in advance what a meeting with strangers promises: especially if it takes place in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone; especially if the strangers are frostbitten bandits, compared to whom the evil mutants seem like sheep; especially if the choice is made for you, because you are doomed. The hero seems to have been given life, but according to the terms of the deal, he finds himself in a vicious circle of death that cannot be broken. It is necessary to obtain a unique artifact, the “blue panacea,” and free the charming daughter of the bandit chieftain Herod from captivity, but every step towards the goal only multiplies the corpses and brings the hero himself closer to death.