While conducting another journalistic investigation into illegal arms trafficking, Vitaly Alekseevich Voyko knew perfectly well that if his operation failed, he wouldn’t be spared. But that the investigation would turn him, a lucky correspondent, into a major criminal authority and a prominent political figure—he couldn’t imagine even in the worst nightmare.
Why a nightmare? Because earlier he could never have thought that he’d have to play the role of the tsar’s gossip at the court of Tsar Gordon, while at the same time settling questions with such notorious figures as Immortal Koshchey and the mysterious Don. And if gods get involved in these schemes…