About the book: 2007 / For the first time in Russian, a new novel by John Ringo and Michael Williamson about the dangerous adventures of space reconnaissance! A special Combat Reconnaissance Squad is sent to a distant planet, captured, according to reports, by the worst enemies of humanity - the Tslek. These mysterious creatures have already destroyed several thousand settlements on worlds colonized by people and are preparing another attack. However, this time the real danger to the scouts is not the tsleks, but a mysterious artifact discovered on an enemy planet, and a betrayal that has tarnished the honor of the invincible SOBR.