About the book: 2005 / Former participant in the military conflict in Egypt, Artem Gorin returns to the places where he once fought to take part in a secret army special operation. It soon becomes clear that the real purpose of the special forces group under his command is to become guinea pigs in a cruel experiment to test an aggressive biological object. Gorin will have to uncover the mystery of the Black Oasis project and the ferocious monster code-named Karkhashim, as well as their connection with the merciless maniac Trophy Man, who is terrorizing one of the Russian cities..