Fractures. Book 1: Leshy. The Beginning of the Path

The Zone... A distorted reality, a world governed by alien laws where death can strike from nowhere. Only those who have learned to live on the edge — and can no longer live any other way — survive here. Eight years ago, a boy from a savage tribe that lived in harmony with anomalies lost everything. By the cruel laws of his world, he should have been cast out — but instead, the stalkers Khimik and Prigorshnya took him in. Losing one home, he gained another. Now he is twenty. He senses anomalies before anyone else. He sees what remains hidden from ordinary stalkers. Having come of age, he decides to set out on a journey — to find his lost world. But Fractures are not mere passages. They are boundaries where different realities intertwine and collide, giving birth to new threats. Everything Khimik and Prigorshnya learned in their adventures is now concentrated within him. This is where his path begins. In his hands is the "Cutter," an artifact capable of slicing through the very fabric of reality and opening the doors of these Fractures. But not all doors lead where you wish to go…