Max and his friends finally fly to Peru. This unique country will most likely become the last stop on their journey—if only everything goes as planned. In the hero’s hands is an ancient statuette of an unknown deity, which should point the way to the mystical City of the Sun. His father spent his entire life searching for this place. Mysteriously, he disappeared seven years ago, leaving behind a trail of ciphers, riddles, and cryptograms. Max has already been to India and Sri Lanka, but the answer that seemed close is still not found, and it’s unknown whether the lost city hidden in the Amazon jungle can be discovered. And did it exist at all?
The tetralogy “City of the Sun” blends detective fiction, a family saga, and a thriller. In the third book, readers will find new puzzles, astonishing historical and ethnographic details, and a plot that’s been tightly wound. Evgeny Rudashevsky (born in 1987) is perhaps the leading expert in adolescent psychology among modern Russian authors. The feelings and thoughts of a nineteen-year-old hero are rendered so precisely that it’s as if the author himself never stopped being an adult.