Near the villa by the seaside town of Caesarea, businessman Ar Rosenfeld—formerly a Russian citizen—dies mysteriously. After some time, in a Tel Aviv hotel, the businessman’s former wife, Galina Sokolova, who arrived in Israel from Moscow, is murdered. Another person—also a repatriate from Russia and an entrepreneur—meets his death in a car accident. In Tel Aviv University, a young lab assistant dies while reading an old book.
The tome that brings death has nothing to do with the other murders, but only private investigator Nathaniel Rozovsky, a regular hero of Daniel Kluger’s works, spots the connection between events of the late seventeenth century and the end of the twentieth century and sets out on the trail of the criminals.