What connects Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, Peter I, and Napoleon—besides their fame as great rulers and commanders? Perhaps it was that, at some point in each of their lives, they were fantastically lucky: everything they set out to do came to fruition, any obstacles seemed to vanish, and no one could stop them. But was it merely a chain of happy coincidences—or did some cause behind such success lie beyond the understanding of ordinary people?
…One morning, private-investigation enthusiast Nadezhda Lebedeva pulled a letter from her mailbox. The envelope was addressed to someone else, and instead of the usual solution—leaving the find at the mailbox for the owner—Nadezhda decided to deliver the letter to the addressee herself. Better if she hadn’t. A spiteful fate handed her a new criminal riddle, as if knowing that Nadezhda wouldn’t be able to walk past it. Now she must unravel a strange murder, find six bronze busts, and uncover the secret of the participants of a mysterious mystical society…