About the book: year / After an anomalous storm that opened access to the previously inaccessible Northern Zone, the bartender Val assembles an expedition of desperate vagabonds. It was started by the veteran Fan who died on the threshold of the bar. There is a lot of money at stake and... something mysterious, hidden on the other side of the Pripyat River. In search of the truth, Val finds himself in the midst of a brewing disaster caused by the intervention of intelligence agencies, the Mercenary Syndicate and the private corporation Tesla Corp. The game has begun..