“The hot, thick core of the trilogy ‘The Napoleon’s Caravan’ is truly revealed in the second book of the novel, ‘White Horses’. The sharp simmering plot is reminiscent of thick gypsy stew cooked by Stasiek’s camp—after he ran away with the gypsies in search of a ‘love doctrine’. And you can hardly catch your breath from episode after episode, where love is intertwined with betrayal, surges of happiness end in the heroine’s deadly plunge off a cliff… where white horses, one after another, carefully carry the plot—swaying with a pearly mane and carrying the dying Nadezhda out of the river on their steady backs.” Dina Rubina